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John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) [1] was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s. Biography. John Braine was born in the Westgate area of central Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Apr 9, 2024 · John Braine (born April 13, 1922, Bradford, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1987, London) was a British novelist, one of the so-called Angry Young Men, whose Room at the Top (1957; film 1959) typifies the concerns of a generation of post-World War II British writers.
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Biography. PDF Cite Share. John Gerard Braine was born April 13, 1922, in the Nonconformist city of Bradford, Yorkshire. His parents, Fred and Katherine, were lower-middle-class...
John Gerard Braine was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1922. He sprang to immediate fame in 1957 with publication of his first novel, Room at the Top , which was a critical success and a major bestseller in England and America and was adapted for the screen in an Oscar-winning 1959 film starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey.
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Apr 13, 2024 · John Gerrard Braine was born in Bradford on April 13, 1922, the son of a corporation sewage-treatment supervisor who had worked in the wool mills as a child.
Braine was born on April 13, 1922, in Bradford, England. He attended St. Bede’s Grammar School in Bradford and the Leeds School of Librarianship and was working as a librarian in Yorkshire when Room at the Top appeared.
John Gerard Braine was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1922. He sprang to immediate fame in 1957 with publication of his first novel, Room at the Top , which was a critical success and a major bestseller in England and America and was adapted for the screen in an Oscar-winning 1959 film starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey.
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