Lawrence Durrell
AuthorBio
Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell. The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, The Greek Islands.
Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history.
Lawrence Durrell Books
Diplomatic Adventures
Lawrence DurrellLawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One
Lawrence DurrellLawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two
Lawrence DurrellA Certain Plume
Henri MichauxFrom the Elephant's Back
Lawrence DurrellJudith
Lawrence DurrellThe Black Book
Lawrence DurrellBlue Thirst
Lawrence DurrellClea
Lawrence DurrellConstance
Lawrence DurrellThe Dark Labyrinth
Lawrence DurrellEsprit de Corps
Lawrence DurrellJustine
Lawrence DurrellThe Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
Lawrence DurrellLivia
Lawrence DurrellMonsieur
Lawrence DurrellNunquam
Lawrence DurrellProspero's Cell
Lawrence DurrellQuinx
Lawrence DurrellReflections on a Marine Venus
Lawrence Durrell