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Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of ...
Jul 19, 1998 · A.J. Cronin was a Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social criticism won a large Anglo-American readership. Cronin was educated at the University of Glasgow and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I.
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Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
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A.J. Cronin was a Scottish author of nonfiction, literature and fiction novels. He is famously known for his novel The Citadel published in 1937. The book tells a story of a doctor of welsh origins who quickly climbs the ladder of success in London.
A.J. Cronin has 279 books on Goodreads with 62294 ratings. A.J. Cronin’s most popular book is The Citadel.
A.J. Cronin. 4.23. 9,429 ratings743 reviews. The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as he navigates the challenges of practising medicine across interwar Wales and England.
Learn about the life and works of A. J. Cronin, a Scottish physician and best-selling novelist who wrote The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Dr. Finlay's Casebook. Find out how he combined social criticism, realism, and romance in his fiction.
