Robert Payne
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (born December 4, 1911 in Cornwall ; † March 3, 1983 ) was a British writer (novels, biographies, non-fiction).
Live and act
Payne was born in Cornwall, England, to an English father and a French mother. As a young man, he traveled to the countries of the Far East for many years, an experience that was later incorporated into his books many times. He then worked temporarily as a ship builder and in the British financial administration. During the Second World War he worked as an armaments officer and senior officer of the British secret service in Singapore .
For his literary works Payne used the pseudonyms Richard Cargoe , John Anthony Devon , Howard Horne , Valentin Tikhonov and Robert Young ; he published his non-fiction books under his own name. His complete works include more than 110 works. His greatest successes were his numerous biographical studies of famous personalities; including u. a. Alexander the Great , Charlie Chaplin , Winston Spencer Churchill , Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , Greta Garbo , Mahatma Gandhi , Adolf Hitler , Ivan the Terrible , Lenin , George C. Marshall , Karl Marx , Albert Schweitzer , William Shakespeare , Josef Stalin , Sun Yat- sen , and Leon Trotsky .
Works (selection)
- Novels
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Torrents of spring. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1946.
- German: In the storm of spring. Novel. Desch, Munich 1957.
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The great mogul. Heinemann, London 1950.
- German: The Great Mughal. Novel. Günther, Stuttgart, 1952.
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The roaring boys. Doubleday, New York 1955.
- German: uprising of the comedians. A Shakespeare novel. Desch, Munich 1956.
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A house in Beijing. Doubleday, New York 1956.
- German: Princess Red Jade. Novel. Desch, Vienna 1958.
- Biographies
- with Stephen Chen: Sun Yat-sen. A portrait. The John Day Company, New York 1946.
- The Marshall Story. A biography of General George C. Marshall. Prentice Hall, New York 1952.
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The great Charlie. German, London 1952.
- German: The great Charlie. A biography of the clown. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
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Three worlds of Albert Schweitzer. Nelson, New York 1958.
- German: Albert Schweitzer and his three worlds. Biography. Diana, Constance 1964.
- Dostoyevsky. A human portrait. Knopf, New York 1961.
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The life and death of Lenin. Hale, London 1964.
- German: Lenin and his death. Rütten & Loening, Munich 1965.
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The rise and fall of Stalin. Simon & Schuster, New York 1965.
- German: Stalin. Rise and fall. A biography. Günther, Stuttgart 1967.
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Marx. WH Allen and Company, London 1968.
- German: Ivan the Terrible. Life and time of the first tsar, under whose rule the Great Russian Empire came into being and Russia entered European history. Knaur, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-426-02311-3 .
- The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi. Bodley, London 1969, ISBN 0-370-01318-2 .
- The life and death of Adolf Hitler. Cape, London 1973, ISBN 0-224-00927-3 .
- The great man. A portrait of Winston Churchill. Coward McCann Books, New York 1974.
- with Nikita Romanov: Ivan the Terrible. Crowell, New York 1975, ISBN 0-690-00582-2 .
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The great Garbo. Praeger, New York 1976, ISBN 0-275-34000-7 .
- Greta Garbo. Your films, your life. Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-01079-5 .
- The life and death of Trotsky. McGraw Hill, New York 1977, ISBN 0-07-048940-8 .
- By me, William Shakespeare. A biography. Everest House, New York 1980, ISBN 0-89696-064-1 .
- Non-fiction
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Red storm over Asia. Macmillan, New York 1951.
- German: Red storm over Asia. An overview of the political developments in Asia since 1946. Academic joint publishing house, Salzburg 1952.
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Journey to Persia.
- German: Persian journey. Otto Müller, Salzburg undated
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The Gold of Troy. The story of Heinrich Schliemann and the buried cities of ancient Greece. Funk & Wagnalls, London 1959.
- German: The gold of Troy. German Folk Books, Hamburg 1960.
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Ancient Greece . The triumph of a culture. Norton, New York 1964.
- German: The triumph of the Greeks. Ancient Greece and its culture. Günther, Stuttgart 1966.
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The isles of Greece. Simon & Schuster, New York 1965.
- German: Islands under Hellas sun. Scherz, Bern 1967.
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The Christian centuries. From Christ to Dante . Norton, New York 1966.
- German: Under this sign. The first 13 centuries of Christianity. DVA, Stuttgart 1968.
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The dream and the tomb. A history of the crusades. Stein & Day, New York 1984, ISBN 0-8128-2945-X .
- German: The Crusades . Two hundred years of struggle for the Holy Sepulcher . Benziger, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-545-34050-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Payne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Payne, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Payne, Pierre Stephen Robert (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1911 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cornwall |
DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1983 |