Lawrence Durrell AKA Lawrence George Durrell Born: 27-Feb-1912 Birthplace: Jullundur, India Died: 7-Nov-1990 Location of death: Sommières, France Cause of death: Stroke Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Poet Nationality: England Executive summary: The Alexandria Quartet Brother: Gerald Durrell (naturalist) Wife: Nancy Myers (m. 1935, div. 1947) Wife: Yvette Cohen (m. 1947, div.) Wife: Claude-Marie Vincendon (m. 1961, d. 1967) Wife: Ghislaine de Boysson (m. 1973, div. 1979)
Author of books:
Pied Piper of Lovers (1935, novel) Panic Spring (1937, novel) The Black Book (1938, novel) A Private Country (1943, poetry) Prospero's Cell (1945, nonfiction) Cities, Plains and People (1946, poetry) The Dark Labyrinth (1947, novel) The Tree of Idleness (1953, poetry) Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953, nonfiction) Justine (1957, novel, Alexandria Quartet) Bitter Lemons (1957, nonfiction) White Eagles Over Serbia (1957, novel) Balthazar (1958, novel, Alexandria Quartet) Mountolive (1958, novel, Alexandria Quartet) Clea (1960, novel, Alexandria Quartet) Selected Poems: 1953-63 (1964, poetry) The Ikons (1966, poetry) Tunc (1968, novel) Nunquam (1970, novel, sequel to Tunc) Monsieur; or, The Prince of Darkness (1974, novel, Avignon Quintet) Blue Thirst (1975, nonfiction) Sicilian Carousel (1977, nonfiction) The Greek Islands (1978, nonfiction) Livia; or, Buried Alive (1978, novel, Avignon Quintet) Collected Poems 1931–74 (1980, poetry) Constance; or, Solitary Practices (1982, novel, Avignon Quintet) Sebastian; or, Ruling Passions (1983, novel, Avignon Quintet) Quinx; or, The Ripper's Tale (1985, novel, Avignon Quintet) Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence (1990, nonfiction)
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