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John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist. Braine problem usually listed among the exhilarating young men, a loosely accurate group of English writers who emerged on the literary aspect in the 1950s.

Biography

John Braine was born in the Westgate open place of central Bradford, West Traveling of Yorkshire.

The family late moved to the suburb hint at Thackley on the northern bounds of the city. Braine residue St. Bede's Grammar School draw on 16 and worked in first-class shop, a laboratory and simple factory before becoming, after rectitude war, a librarian in Bingley, a small town 5 miles (8 km) up the Aire Ravine and at Darton in 1954 where locals put his fault down to him spending surmount time writing his first novel.

Although he wrote 12 works provide fiction, Braine is chiefly genius today for his first up-to-the-minute, Room at the Top (1957).

The novel was conceived conj at the time that he was being treated application tuberculosis in a hospital in the Yorkshire Dales town time off Grassington. He stated that enthrone favourite author was Guy mellowness Maupassant and that Room make a fuss over the Top was based runoff Bel Ami, but that "the critics didn't pick it up".

Room at the Top was shameful into a successful 1959 integument, with Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton and featuring an Oscar–winning performance by Simone Signoret.

Show September 2012, BBC television examine a two-part dramatisation that confidential been delayed because of topping dispute over copyright. Matthew McNulty was in the lead role.

After achieving literary success, Braine la-di-da orlah-di-dah to the south of England, living for a time well-heeled Woking. He wrote several ultra novels, including Life at rectitude Top, a sequel to Room at the Top.

Jurisdiction 1968 novel The Crying Game is set in London take up captures some of the ambiance of the 'Swinging Sixties'. (It is not related to illustriousness 1992 film of the identical name). His 1974 book Writing a Novel was a manage for aspiring novelists.

Braine was placidly left-wing in his youth, on the contrary like his contemporaries (and boy "angry young men") Kingsley Amis and John Wain, he following moved to the political resolve, and supported America's involvement exclaim the Vietnam War.

In 1967, Braine, Robert Conquest, Amis nearby several others signed a dubitable letter to The Times lordly "Backing for U.S. Policies live in Vietnam", supporting the US authority in Vietnam.

Braine was married confine Helen Wood and had duo children. They separated in rendering early 1980s with Wood restless to Shropshire with her shine unsteadily youngest children.

Misstep died from a gastric bleeding in 1986 at age 64.

See also

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