Henry Tomlinson

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Henry Major Tomlinson (born June 21, 1873 in London , † February 5, 1958 in London) was a British writer and journalist . He wrote anti-war and travel books, novels and short stories, specifically for life on the sea. His work is less well known in Germany.

Life

Tomlinson was born in Poplar ( London ), where he also spent his youth. First he worked as a freight worker and later as a reporter for the newspaper "Morning Leader". For this he traveled along the Amazon .

During the First World War he was used in France as the official reporter for the British Army . In 1917 he turned back to the organization "The Nation" with HW Messingham . "The Nation" was a strict anti-war organization. In 1923 he ended his activity there when Messingham also withdrew due to changes in ownership and political lines of the organization. In 1943 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

  • The Sea and the Jungle. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils (1912)
  • Old Junk (1918) stories
  • London River (1921) revised 1951
  • Waiting for Daylight (1922)
  • Tidemarks: Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923 (1924)
  • Gifts of Fortune With Some Hints For Those About to Travel (1926)
  • Under the Red Ensign (1926)
  • Gallions Reach (1927) novel
  • Out Of Soundings (1928)
  • A Brown Owl (1928)
  • Illusion: 1915 (1928)
  • Thomas Hardy (1929)
  • Cote d'Or (1929)
  • Between the Lines (1930)
  • Was books. A Lecture Given at Manchester University February 15, 1929 (1930)
  • All Our Yesterdays (1930)
  • The Sky's the Limit (1930)
  • Great Sea Stories of All Nations (1930) editor
  • Best Short Stories Of the War (1931) editor
  • Norman Douglas (1931)
  • An Illustrated Catalog of Rare Books on the East Indies and A Letter to a Friend (1932)
  • The Snows of Helicon (1933)
  • South to Cadiz (1934)
  • Below London Bridge (1934)
  • Mars His Idiot (1935)
  • RMS "Queen Mary". A noble tribute to the imagination of man (1935) with EP Leigh-Bennett
  • Pipe All Hands (1937) novel
  • The Day Before: A Romatic Chronicle (1939)
  • Modern Travel (1939) editor, anthology
  • The wind is rising. The war diary of HM Tomlinson and a vision of all our tomorrows (1941)
  • The Turn of the Tide (1945)
  • Morning Light: The Islanders in the Days of Oak and Hemp (1946)
  • Malay waters. the story of little ships coasting out of Singapore and Penang in peace and war (1950)
  • The Face of the Earth (1950)
  • The Haunted Forest (1951)
  • A Mingled Yarn: Autobiographical Sketches (1953)
  • HM Tomlinson: a Selection from His Writings (1953) edited by Kenneth Hopkins
  • The Trumpet Shall Sound (1957)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members: HM Tomlinson. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tomlinson, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomlinson, Henry Major (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1958
Place of death London