Bruce Marshall

Bruce Marshall

Bruce Marshall (born June 24, 1899 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † June 18, 1987 in Biot , France ) was a Scottish writer .

Life

Bruce Marshall initially worked as a chartered accountant after completing his years at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh . He was seriously injured in World War I and one leg had to be amputated. In 1917 he converted to Catholicism . After the end of World War II, he lived in Cap d'Antibes, France until his death .

Marshall was one of the most successful Catholic writers of the 1940s and 50s. Almost forgotten today, his books were bestsellers back then and some of them were also successfully filmed.

Almost all of his novels in German translation have been published by Verlag Jakob Hegner , Cologne.

Quotes from reviews:

New Statesman: “As much as I love Nobody and The Miracle of Malachia , I think that this is Marshall's most typical novel to this day. Ingenious, witty, bursting with ideas, he combines the power of a good detective novel with the lofty mood of a swank and the satisfaction that a novel gives us from practical life ... "(from the German first edition of Auf Heller und Pfennig )

Die Welt, Hamburg: "Even Graham Greene only comes close to Marshall's new book in strength and glory ." ( Nobody comes up short )

Kölnische Rundschau: "Well said, a masterpiece of an artistic quality and character that is unique in its kind." ( Nobody misses out )

Due to the poor source situation, these quotations are taken from the book covers of the respective works.

Works

• Stooping Venus . 1926
• Prayer For The Living . 1934
• Uncertain Glory . 1935
• Canon To The Right Of Them . 1936
• Luckpenny . 1937
• Father Malachy's Miracle . 1938 (German Das Wunder des Malachias )
• Deliliah Upside Down . 1941
• Yellow Tapers For Paris . 1943
• All Glorious Within . 1944 (German: Die Welt, das Glück and Father Smith . 1947 / All glory is inward . 1954)
• George Brown's Schooldays . 1946
• The Red Danube . 1947 (German: The Red Danube . 1956)
• To Every Man A Penny . 1950 (German: Nobody misses out or God's hourly wage . 1952)
• The White Rabbit . 1952
• The Fair Bride . 1953 (German: You are beautiful, my friend . Rowohlt 1953)
• Only fade away . 1954
• Thoughts Of My Cats . 1954 (German: kittens and cats . 1955)
• Girl in May . 1956 (German: Mädchen im Mai . 1959)
• The Bank Audit . 1958 (German: Auf Heller und Pfennig . 1958)
• A thread of scarlet . 1959 (German: The red hat . 1960)
• Satan and Cardinal Campbell . 1959
• The Divided Lady . 1960
• The Children . 1960
• A girl from Lübeck . 1962
• Death comes for John Paul . 1980 (German: The Clan of the Twelve Apostles . Schneekluth 1980)

literature

• Theodor Kampmann: Poetry as a testimony . - Warendorf: Schnekk, 1958

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruce Marshall in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.kathsurf.at/buchempfäden/marshall_wunder_malachias.html (content and review of Marshall's novel "The Miracle of Malachias")