Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (born December 4, 1911 in Cornwall ; † March 3, 1983 ) was a British writer (novels, biographies, non-fiction).

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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
  • Torrents of spring. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1946.
    • German: In the storm of spring. Novel. Desch, Munich 1957.
  • The great mogul. Heinemann, London 1950.
    • German: The Great Mughal. Novel. Günther, Stuttgart, 1952.
  • The roaring boys. Doubleday, New York 1955.
    • German: uprising of the comedians. A Shakespeare novel. Desch, Munich 1956.
  • 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.
  • The great Charlie. German, London 1952.
    • German: The great Charlie. A biography of the clown. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
  • Three worlds of Albert Schweitzer. Nelson, New York 1958.
  • Dostoyevsky. A human portrait. Knopf, New York 1961.
  • The life and death of Lenin. Hale, London 1964.
    • German: Lenin and his death. Rütten & Loening, Munich 1965.
  • The rise and fall of Stalin. Simon & Schuster, New York 1965.
    • German: Stalin. Rise and fall. A biography. Günther, Stuttgart 1967.
  • 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 .
  • The great Garbo. Praeger, New York 1976, ISBN 0-275-34000-7 .
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Journey to Persia.
    • German: Persian journey. Otto Müller, Salzburg undated
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The isles of Greece. Simon & Schuster, New York 1965.
    • German: Islands under Hellas sun. Scherz, Bern 1967.
  • The Christian centuries. From Christ to Dante . Norton, New York 1966.
    • German: Under this sign. The first 13 centuries of Christianity. DVA, Stuttgart 1968.
  • The dream and the tomb. A history of the crusades. Stein & Day, New York 1984, ISBN 0-8128-2945-X .

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personal data
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