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Brian Moore (/ b r i ˈ æ n / bree-AN; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.
Brian Moore was an Irish novelist who immigrated to Canada and then to the United States. Known as a “writer’s writer,” he composed novels that were very different from each other in voice, setting, and incident but alike in their lucid, elegant, and vivid prose.
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Jan 5, 2019 · Books. Brian Moore: ‘My real strength is that I am a truthful writer’. On the 20th anniversary of his death, an unpublished interview paints a revealing portrait of one of Ireland’s...
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Brian Moore ( / briˈæn / bree-AN; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.
Jan 11, 1999 · January 11, 1999. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Brian Moore (1921–1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father was a surgeon and lecturer, and his mother had been a nurse.
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Lies of Silence. Brian Moore was born in Belfast. His novels The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Moore, Brian (1921–99), novelist, was born 25 August 1921 at 11 Clifton Street, on a Belfast sectarian faultline; he was the fourth of nine surviving children of Dr James Bernard Moore, surgeon, and his wife Eileen (née MacFadden) a former nurse from Gweedore.
