Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary AKA Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary

Born: 6-Dec-1888
Birthplace: Londonderry, Ireland
Died: 29-Mar-1957
Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: Illness [1]

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Horse's Mouth

Military service: British Colonial Service (Nigeria Regiment, WWI)

[1] Motor neuron disease.

Father: Arthur P. C. Cary
Mother: Charlotte Joyce
Wife: Gertrude Margaret Ogilvie (m. 1916, d. 1949, four sons)
Son: Tristram Cary (composer, b. 14-May-1925)

University: Trinity College, Oxford University (1909-12)

Author of books:
Aissa Saved (1932, novel)
An American Visitor (1933, novel)
The African Witch (1936, novel)
Castle Corner (1938, novel)
Mister Johnson (1939, novel)
Charley is My Darling (1940, novel)
A House of Children (1941, novel)
Herself Surprised (1941, novel, trilogy #1)
To Be a Pilgrim (1942, novel, trilogy #1)
The Horse's Mouth (1944, novel, trilogy #1)
The Moonlight (1946)
A Fearful Joy (1949)
Prisoner of Grace (1952, novel, trilogy #2)
Except the Lord (1953, novel, trilogy #2)
Not Honour More (1955, novel, trilogy #2)
Art and Reality (1958)
The Captive and the Free (1959, novel)
Spring Song and other Stories (1960, short stories)

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