Brian Moore
Brian Moore was born in August in 1921. He moved to Canada in 1948 where he worked as a reporter until moving to the United States in 1959. His first novel Judith Hearne was made into a film starring Dame Maggie Smith. In 1975 The Great Victorian Collection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; The Doctor’s Wife; The Colour of Blood; Lies of Silence. Brian Moore died at his home in Malibu, California in 1999 aged 77.
