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James Hanley
James Hanley was born in Dublin on 3 September 1901.
His novel Boy was the subject
of an obscenity charge in Manchester in early 1936 - to which his
publishers pleaded guilty and were heavily fined. The book was
withdrawn and all remaining copies destroyed.
His novels and stories are
Drift - Novel (Eric Partridge, The Scholartis Press, London 1930);
The German Prisoner - Novella (Privately printed, London 1930);
A Passion Before Death - Novella (Privately printed, London 1930);
The Last Voyage - Novella (Joiner and Steele, London 1931);
Men in Darkness - Five Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1931);
Boy - Novel (Boriswood, London 1931);
Stoker Haslett - Novella (Joiner and Steele, London 1932);
Aria and Finale - Three Novellas (Boriswood, London 1932);
Ebb and Flood - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1932);
Captain Bottell - Novel (Boriswood, London 1933);
Resurrexit Dominus - Novel (Privately Printed, London 1934);
Quartermaster Clausen - Novella (The White Owl Prerss, London 1934);
The Furys - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1935);
At Bay - Novella (Grayson & Grayson, London 1935);
Stoker Bush - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1935);
The Secret Journey - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1936);
Broken Water - Autobiography (Chatto and Windus, London 1937);
Grey Children - Documentary (Methuen, London 1937);
Half an Eye - Short Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1937);
Hollow Sea - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1938);
People Are Curious - Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1938);
Between the Tides - Essays (Methuen, London 1939);
Our Time is Gone - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1940);
The Ocean - Novel (Faber and Faber, London 1941);
No Directions - Novel (Faber and Faber, London 1943);
Sailor's Song - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1943);
At Bay and Other Stories (Faber and Faber, London 1944);
Crilley and Other Stories (Nicholson & Watson, London 1945);
What Farrar Saw - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1946);
Selected Stories (Maurice Fridberg, Dublin 1947);
Emily - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1948);
Winter Song - Novel (Phoenix House, London 1950);
Walk in the Wilderness - Stories (Phoenix House, London 1950);
A House in the Valley - Novel [as Patric Shone] (Jonathan Cape, London 1951);
The Closed Harbour - Novel (Macdonald, London 1952);
Don Quixote Drowned - Essays (Macdonald, London 1953);
Collected Stories (Macdonald, London 1953);
The Welsh Sonata - Novel (Derek Verschoyle, London 1954);
Levine - Novel (Macdonald, London 1956);
An End and a Beginning - Novel (Macdonald, London 1958);
Say Nothing - Novel (Macdonald, London 1962);
Another World - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1972)
A Woman in the Sky - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1973);
Dream Journey - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1976);
and A Kingdom - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1978).
His plays include The Inner Journey - Three Act Play (Black Raven Press, London 1965); and
Plays One - Two Plays (Kaye & Ward, London 1968).
He died in London in
November 1985.
