Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford had a fascinating life, spent among several of the most important groups of artists and writers of his time. Friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells and above all Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-First World War London, publishing Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and D. H. Lawrence in The English Review. After the warhe founded The Transatlantic Review in Paris, helping to launch Hemingway and Jean Rhys. A prolific writer in his own right, Fords best-known books are the modernist tour de force The Good Soldier (1915) and the Parades End tetralogy (19248). Drawing on recently discovered correspondence and photographs, this cogent new critical biography demonstrates Fords vital contribution to modern fiction, poetry and criticism. See more