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Ford Madox Ford, BiographyEnglish Novelist, Poet, Literary Critic and Publisher
Life and work of Ford Madox Ford, early 20th century leading writer and literary critic of the modern English literature. Famous for The Good Soldier and Parade's End.
English novelist, poet, literary critic and publisher, Ford Madox Ford, was a leading figure in the development of modern English literature in the early twentieth century. The Good Soldier and Parade's End are his best known novels. His frequent theme is the conflict between traditional civilized values and those of modern industrial life. Early Years of Ford Madox FordFord Madox Ford (Ford Hermann Hueffer) was born in London on December 17, 1873, the grandson of the painter Ford Madox Brown and the nephew of William Michael Rosetti. He officially changed his name in 1919 from Hueffer to Madox Ford. He grew up in a comfortable creative environment with both his grandfather and his mother being artists. His father was an author and a music critic for The Times newspaper. The Teenage WriterFord's first published works were fairy stories, for example, The Brown Owl, which came out when he was only 18 years old. Friendship and Collaboration with Joseph ConradHe met the great novelist Joseph Conrad when he was 25 years old and they became very good friends, co-writing several novels, including The Inheritors and Romance. However, in 1901, their relationship broke down, but Ford recalled their years of friendship in his personal memoir. The Novelist and PoetHis greatest novels are The Good Soldier and the multivolume Parade's End. The Good Soldier is about a man who discovers his wife has committed suicide over an affair. It is written in a style that was groundbreaking as it tries to recreate real thoughts, something novel at that time. In Parade's End the honest Tietjens escapes from his wife's betrayals by serving in World War I. The war is significant since it brought many changes in English society, captured in the story. He lived in Paris, which eventually became his home. The Literary Critic and PublisherFord founded two influential literary journals, The English Review, in 1908, and The Transatlantic Review, in 1924, in which Ernest Hemingway became his deputy editor. They published works by prominent writers including Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Rhys. Ford published over 80 books, including fiction, non-fiction and some poetry. . Final YearsHe lived frugally in France with an American, Janice Biala. He was also associated with a college in Michigan, where he planned his last work, The March of Literature, the year he died, in 1939, in Deauville, France. Works by Ford Madox Ford
Sources:Biographical Dictionary, edited by Una McGovern, Chambers, 2002 Dictionary of Writers, edited by Rosemary Goring, Larousse, 1994 The Cambridge Literature in English, New Edition, edited by Ian Ousby,Cambridge, 1993
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