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Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7,1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. His most famous work is The Alexandria Quartet which is a tetralogy.
Life and work
Durrell was born in Jullundur, India, the son of Indian-born British colonials. At the age of eleven, he was sent to attend school in England — a country in which he was never happy and which he left as soon as possible. Although his formal education was unsuccessful and he failed his university entrance examinations, Durrell had started writing poetry at the age of fifteen: his first collection, Quaint Fragment, was published in 1931.
In 1935, Durrell married Nancy Meyers, the first of his four marriages. Later that year Durrell, Nancy, his mother, and his siblings (including brother Gerald Durrell, later to be a major British wildlife conservationist and popular writer) moved to the Greek island of Corfu. In the same year his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published by Cassell; he also wrote to Henry Miller expressing intense admiration for his novel Tropic of Cancer, which sparked an enduring friendship and mutually critical relationship. The two got on well as they had similar subjects at the time: Durrell's The Black Book abounded with "four letter words... grotesques,... its mood [as equally as apocalyptic" as Tropic.
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The Alexandria Quartet is keeping me up all night...the only words for it are stunning. Lawrence Durrell is a true genius!
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The Alexandria Quartet is keeping me up all night...the only words for it are stunning. Lawrence Durrell is a true genius!
Music is only love looking for words. Lawrence Durrell
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Books and Writers: Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) - Biography of the Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright, best known for the Alexandria Quartet, with bibliography.
Durrell, Lawrence - Encyclopedia.com article on the British writer (1912-1990).
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International Lawrence Durrell Society - Information on the society and on the twentieth-century novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
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The Lawrence Durrell Archive - William Nedblake provides an illustrated biography of the writer and list of his works.
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