A.J. Cronin

A.J. Cronin was the pen-name of the Scottish novelist Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - January 9, 1981). Born on July 19, 1896 in Cardross[?], Argyll and Bute, Scotland he trained as a doctor before serving as a Royal Navy surgeon during World War I. After the war he set up a practice in a mining area of South Wales but he was forced to retire through ill-health and attempted a new career as a writer. He achieved immediate success with his first novel, Hatter's Castle, the story of a family brought to ruin by the pride and stubbornness of its patriarch. Many of his later novels and stories draw on his medical experiences, dramatically mixing realism, romance, and social criticism[?]. For the last 35 years of his life, he lived in Switzerland. He died on January 9, 1981, in Montreux, Switzerland.

Bibliography

Many of the following books were made into films under the same title.

• Hatter's Castle 1931
• Three Loves[?] 1932
• Grand Canary[?] 1933
• The Stars Look Down[?] 1935
• The Citadel 1937
• Lady With Carnations[?] 1939
• Jupiter Laughs[?] 1940 (play) filmed as Shining Victory[?] (1941)
• The Keys of the Kingdom 1942
• The Green Years[?] 1944
• The Adventures Of A Black Bag[?] 1946
• Shannon's Way[?] 1948
• The Spanish Gardener[?] 1950
• Adventures In Two World[?] 1952
• Beyond This Place[?] (aka Web of Evidence) 1953
• Crusader's Tomb[?] 1956
• A Thing Of Beauty[?] 1956
• The Northern Light[?] 1958
• The Native Doctor[?] ((aka An Apple In Eden[?]) 1959
• The Judas Tree[?] 1961
• The Innkeeper's Wife[?] 1962
• A Song Of Sixpence[?] 1964
• A Question Of Modernity[?] 1966
• A Pocketful Of Rye[?] 1969
• Enchanted Snow[?] 1971
• The Minstrel Boy[?] 1975
• Desmonde[?] 1975
• Gracie Lindsay[?] 1978
• Short Stories From Dr Finlay's Casebook[?] 1979
• Doctor Finlay Of Tannochbrae[?] 1985

External Links

A.J. Cronin at Scottish Authors (http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/cronidsw.htm) A.J. Cronin (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ajcronin.htm) -- Biography and bibliography