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Brian Moore (/ b r i ˈ æ n / bree-AN; [2] 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland [3] [4] [5] who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.
Aug 21, 2024 · Brian Moore (born Aug. 25, 1921, Belfast, N.Ire.—died Jan. 10, 1999, Malibu, Calif., U.S.) was an Irish novelist who immigrated to Canada and then to the United States. Known as a “writer’s writer,” he composed novels that were very different from each other in voice, setting, and incident but alike in their lucid, elegant, and vivid prose.
Brian Moore has 141 books on Goodreads with 37079 ratings. Brian Moore’s most popular book is The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.
Jun 8, 2018 · Moore, Brian (1921–98) Canadian novelist, b. Northern Ireland. His works examine the nature of religions and sexual guilt, and the plight of the individual when transplanted from a familiar environment. Novels include The Lonely Passion of Miss Judith Hearne (1955), Lies of Silence (1990) and The Statement (1995).
Jan 12, 1999 · Brian Moore, the author of 19 novels, including ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,'' died yesterday at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 77. The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said...
novelist, born and educated in Belfast. He emigrated in 1948 to Canada and subsequently moved to the USA. Judith Hearne (1955; published in the US as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, 1956) is a poignant story of a lonely Belfast spinster who takes refuge in alcohol.
His novels The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has honoured by the United States Institute of Arts and Letters.
