| LC control no. | n 78092890 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6015.O7885 |
| Personal name heading | Household, Geoffrey, 1900-1988 |
| Variant(s) | West, Edward, 1900-1988 West, Geoffrey Edward, 1900-1988 Hāvusʹhūld, Jifrī, 1900-1988 هاوسهولد، جفرى Household, Geoffrey Edward West, 1900-1988 |
| Associated country | England Romania United States Spain |
| Associated place | Oxford (England) Bucharest (Romania) |
| Located | Oxfordshire (England) |
| Birth date | 1900-11-30 |
| Death date | 1988-10-04 |
| Place of birth | Bristol (England) |
| Place of death | Oxfordshire (England) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Suspense fiction Children's plays English literature |
| Affiliation | Clifton College (Bristol, England) Magdalen College (University of Oxford) Bank of Romania (Bucharest, Romania) United Fruit Company Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. John Kidd (Manufacturer) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His The Spanish cave ... 1936. WD,Times obituary: (Died 1988, Geoffrey Edward West) IMDb, Aug. 13, 2009 (Geoffrey Household, b. Edward West, Nov. 30, 1900; d. Oct. 4, 1988; novelist) Gizinufūn, 1961: t.p. (جفرى هاوسهولد = Jifrī Hāvusʹhūld) t.p. verso (Geoffrey Household [in rom.]) Wikipedia, viewed Nov.1, 2021: Geoffrey Household (Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 - 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialised in thrillers. He was born in Bristol. Household was educated at Clifton College, Bristol (1914-1919), and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he received a B.A. in English literature in 1922. He became an assistant confidential secretary for Bank of Romania, in Bucharest (1922-1926). In 1926 he went to Spain, where he worked selling bananas as a marketing manager for the United Fruit Company. In 1929 Household moved to the United States where he wrote for children's encyclopedias and composed children's radio plays for the Columbia Broadcasting System. From 1933 to 1939 he was a traveling salesman for John Kidd, a manufacturer of printing ink, in Europe, the Middle East and South America. He served in British Intelligence during World War II in Romania, Greece and the Middle East.. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington. In all, he wrote twenty-eight novels (including four for young adults and a novella), seven short story collections and an autobiography, Against the Wind, published in 1958. International intrigue and espionage are the focus of a large proportion of his books, including Rogue Male, The High Place (1950), A Rough Shoot (1951), Fellow Passenger (1955), Watcher in the Shadows (1960), Red Anger (1975) and The Last Two Weeks of Georges Rivac (1978).) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Household> |
| Associated language | eng |
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