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Julian Gustave Symons (originally Gustave Julian Symons, pronounced SIMM-ons; 30 May 1912 – 19 November 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.
- Julian Symons
- 1972
At first glance, Symons’s literary career appears to fall rather neatly into two distinct and contradictory phases: radical poet in the 1930’s and Tory writer of crime fiction.
British crime writer and poet Julian Symons was born in 1912 in London, England. He founded the poetry magazine Twentieth Century Verse in 1937 and edited it for two years before turning his attention to crime novels.
Apr 15, 2024 · Julian Symons was well aware of all the death and dreary decline going on around him. He began writing the first edition of Bloody Murder in 1970 at the relatively youthful age of fifty-eight, after having retired from a decade-long stint as the crime fiction reviewer for the Sunday Times.
- Curtis Evans
Nov 23, 1994 · Julian Gustave Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work.
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- November 23, 1994
- May 30, 1912
Mar 22, 1990 · In youth he was a market researcher, working among other things on a toothpaste campaign, and by the Eighties was employing a secretary, a filing clerk, a booking agent, a bibliographer, teams of students to transcribe his journals, and a variety of lawyers.
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Julian Symons. Julian Symons (1912–1994) was a British crime writer and poet, best known for his detective novels and for his reevaluation of the detective fiction genre. He also wrote social and military history, biography, and studies of literature.
