Brian Moore (1921- )

• born and educated in Northern Ireland
• during World War II, he was with the British Ministry of War Transport in North Africa, Italy, and France
• immigrated to Canada in 1948, where he became a reporter on the Montreal Gazette
• moved to the US in 1959, but retained Canadian citizenship
• Novels:
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955) filmed in 1987
  • The Feast of Lupercal (1957)
  • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) won the Governor General's Award, it concerns a middle-aged immigrant to Canada, filmed in 1964
  • Catholics (1972) (filmed as aTV movie)
  • The Great Victorian Collection (1975) won the Governor General's Award
  • The Doctor's Wife (1976) considered by Anthony Burgess to be one of the best 99 novels written between 1939 and 1984
  • The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981)
  • The Mangan Inheritance (1979)
  • Cold Heaven (1983) filmed in 1992
  • Black Robe (1985) filmed in 1991
  • The Color of Blood (1987)
  • Lies of Silence (1990)
  • No Other Life (1993)
  • The Statement (1995)
  • The Magician's Wife (1997)
• he adapted Simone de Beavoir's Le Sang des Autres (The Blood of Others) into a screenplay in 1984
• filmography

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