Andrew Garve

John Joseph Higgins (University of Stirling)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 1908
Died 2001
Activity 1937-1978

Places

Born in United Kingdom
Active in United Kingdom

Genres and Modes

Crime and Detective

Activities

Primary

Journalist
Prose writer

Resources

Garve's Works

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The journalist Paul Winterton (1908-2001) became much better known after 1950 when, using the pen name Andrew Garve, he published a number of successful thrillers and detective stories. Many of these books had nothing to do with his earlier career as a newspaper correspondent in Moscow and elsewhere, but the ones that do cast an interesting light on his politics and our general view of the communist experiment.

He was the son of a left-wing journalist, Ernest Winterton, who was the Labour Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1929 to 1931, but who also stood unsuccessfully for the same constituency in the elections of 1923, 1924, 1931 and 1935. There was a family link to Philip Spratt, a left-wing intellectual who was a founding member of the Communist Party of India in 1927, but who

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Citation: Higgins, John Joseph. "Andrew Garve". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 January 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13215, accessed 24 November 2024.]