Geoffrey Household

Geoffrey Edward West Household (born November 30, 1900 in Bristol , † October 4, 1988 in Banbury , England ) was a British writer , best known for the chase novel Rogue Male (German: loner, male ).

Life

Geoffrey Household grew up in Bristol and attended Clifton College from 1914 to 1919. He then studied at Magdalen College in Oxford , where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then worked as a banker in Romania and from 1926 as a marketing manager for bananas in Spain . In 1929 he moved to the USA and wrote radio plays for children there. From 1933 to 1939 he traveled through Europe and South America as a sales representative for printing inks . During the Second World War he worked for the British secret service in Romania and the Middle East . After 1945 he lived as an author in England. He was married twice; he married Ilona MJ Zsoldos-Gutman in 1942 and had three children.

He became famous for his persecution thriller and spy novel Rogue Male , which was published in 1939 before the war began. In 1958 his autobiography Against the Wind was published . In his novels he made use of his travel experience.

In 1980 the Swedish Crime Academy (Svenska Deckarakademin) honored him together with the American author William Riley Burnett by awarding him a Grand Master for his life's work as a writer.

Works

• The Salvation of Pisco Gabar , 1936
• The Spanish Cave , 1936 (Eng .: enclosed in the cave . Boje, Stuttgart 1964)
• The Terror of Villadonga , 1936
• The Third Hour , 1937
• Rogue Male , 1939 (German: The hunted . Nest, Nuremberg 1950. Better known title: loner, male . Haffmans, Zurich 1989)
• Arabesque , 1948
• The High Place , 1950
• Rough Shoot , 1951
• A Time to Kill , 1951
• Tales of Adventurers , 1952
• The Exploits of Xenophon , 1955
• Fellow Passenger , 1955
• Against the Wind , 1958
• The Brides of Solomon: And Other Stories , 1958
• Watcher In The Shadows , 1960 (Eng .: eyes in the dark. Haffmans, Zurich 1999)
• Thing to Love , 1963
• Olura , 1965
• Prisoner of the Indies , 1967
• The Courtesy of Death , 1967
• Dance of the Dwarfs , 1968 (German: Don't go out at night. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1970)
• Doom's Caravan , 1971
• The Three Sentinels , 1972
• Red Anger , 1975
• Escape into Daylight , 1976
• Hostage London: The Diary of Julian Despard , 1977
• The Last Two Weeks of Georges Rivac , 1978
• The Europe That Was , 1979
• The Sending , 1980
• Summon the Bright Water , 1981
• Capricorn and Cancer , 1981
• Rogue Justice , 1982
• Arrows of Desire , 1985
• The Days of Your Fathers , 1987
• Face to the Sun , 1988

Web links

• Geoffrey Household in the Internet Movie Database (English)