Brian Moore

Brian Moore (1921-1999), born in Belfast into a large Catholic family, the son of a surgeon, left Ireland in 1943 to serve with the British Ministry of War Transport in North Africa, Italy and France, then with the United Nations in Poland. Emigrating to Canada in 1948, a journalist at the Montreal Gazette, naturalized Canadian, he first wrote potboiler thrillers, under his own name and then under a pseudonym. Later settled in California, a screenwriter for Hitchcock, three times a Booker finalist, he died in Malibu.

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• NovelJudith HearneBrian Moore · 1955Literature