Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford was an English writer, editor and publisher, born in the London Borough of Merton on 17 December 1873 and died on 26 June 1939. He wrote novels, poems, essays and memoirs, and he collaborated with Joseph Conrad on several books. As an editor he founded the English Review and later the transatlantic review, which helped bring writers such as Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway before readers. He is best remembered today for two works of fiction. The Good Soldier is a subtle study of unreliable narration and the hidden lives of two couples. The four novels of the Parade's End sequence follow an English gentleman through the First World War and its upheavals. Ford also wrote historical romances, including a trilogy about Katharine Howard. His fiction is admired for its experiments with time, memory and point of view, and he remains an important figure in the story of modern English literature.