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Leslie Durrell (brother) Website. lawrencedurrell .org. Lawrence George Durrell CBE ( / ˈdʊrəl, ˈdʌr -/; [1] 27 February 1912 [2] – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell .
Lawrence Durrell (born Feb. 27, 1912, Jullundur, India—died Nov. 7, 1990, Sommières, France) was an English novelist, poet, and writer of topographical books, verse plays, and farcical short stories who is best known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of four interconnected novels.
Lawrence George Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century.
Lawrence George Durrell was born on February 27, 1912, in Jullundur in northern India, near Tibet. His English father, Lawrence Samuel Durrell, and his Irish-English mother, Louisa Florence Dixie, had also been born in India. This mix of nationalities marked Durrell’s creative imagination.
Durrell is known primarily as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, (1957–1960) a tetralogy of novels widely considered to be among the finest achievements in 20th-century fiction. Continuing in the tradition of James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, Durrell experiments with the structure of the novel while also probing the human psyche. His work ...
Lawrence George Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century.
Lawrence “Larry”, the eldest of the Durrell siblings, is portrayed in MASTERPIECE’S The Durrell’s in Corfu, as a struggling writer, his every mood dictated, often hilariously so, by the ...
