Denis Johnston: a life
"This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright." "Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born in 1901 into Edwardian Dublin, where during the Easter Risi...
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| Summary: | "This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright." "Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born in 1901 into Edwardian Dublin, where during the Easter Rising he was briefly held hostage in his family home on Lansdowne Road. He made the name of the Gate Theatre in 1929 with his astonishing first play, The Old Lady Says 'No!', and went on to become one of the most celebrated English-language playwrights of the time with The Moon in the Yellow River. During the 1930s he worked for the BBC, creating the radio epic 'Lillibulero' and playing an important role in the infancy of British television. He earned an OBE for his reporting from North Africa, Yugoslavia and Buchenwald during the Second World War, an experience chronicled in his greatest prose work, Nine Rivers from Jordan. In 1950 he decamped to New York and later taught for many years at American colleges." "He was turbulently married to the actresses Shelah Richards and Betty Chancellor, and had four children, among them the novelist Jennifer Johnston. An Irishman of wide horizons and wit, and a prodigal dissenter, his multi-faceted life illuminates the cultural history of the past century."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 370 p., [8] p. of plates ill. : 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 190186667X |
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