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John Lodwick - Wikipedia. John Alan Patrick Lodwick (2 March 1916 – 18 March 1959) was a British novelist. Life. Son of a father in the Indian Army, who died in the sinking of the SS Persia just before his son's birth, Lodwick attended Cheltenham College and the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
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3 de mai. de 2023 · John Lodwick (courtesy of Kim Davis and the New York Society Library). A look this week at the many novels of John Lodwick, a prolific writer who died at 43 from injuries after an auto accident in 1959.
3 de mai. de 2023 · John Lodwick (courtesy of Kim Davis and the New York Society Library). A look this week at the many novels of John Lodwick, a prolific writer who died at 43 from injuries after an auto accident in 1959.
29 de ago. de 2017 · A Forgotten Man: The Life and Death of John Lodwick. John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life...
When the Second World War broke out, Lodwick was living in France, and he immediately volunteered for the French army, serving in the Foreign Legion. His first novel, Running to Paradise (1943), drew on his wartime experiences and won the $1,000 War Novel Prize.
Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together Lodwick's eventful life, from his youth in Ireland, to his wartime experiences in the SOE and Special Boat Service, his subsequent literary career and his untimely death in a car crash in Spain at the age of just 43.
