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- catalog abstract ""This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright." "Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born in 1901 into Edwardian Dublin, where during the Easter Rising he was briefly held hostage in his family home on Lansdowne Road. He made the name of the Gate Theatre in 1929 with his astonishing first play, The Old Lady Says 'No!', and went on to become one of the most celebrated English-language playwrights of the time with The Moon in the Yellow River. During the 1930s he worked for the BBC, creating the radio epic 'Lillibulero' and playing an important role in the infancy of British television. He earned an OBE for his reporting from North Africa, Yugoslavia and Buchenwald during the Second World War, an experience chronicled in his greatest prose work, Nine Rivers from Jordan. In 1950 he decamped to New York and later taught for many years at American colleges." "He was turbulently married to the actresses Shelah Richards and Betty Chancellor, and had four children, among them the novelist Jennifer Johnston. An Irishman of wide horizons and wit, and a prodigal dissenter, his multi-faceted life illuminates the cultural history of the past century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12306052.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright." "Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born in 1901 into Edwardian Dublin, where during the Easter Rising he was briefly held hostage in his family home on Lansdowne Road. He made the name of the Gate Theatre in 1929 with his astonishing first play, The Old Lady Says 'No!', and went on to become one of the most celebrated English-language playwrights of the time with The Moon in the Yellow River. During the 1930s he worked for the BBC, creating the radio epic 'Lillibulero' and playing an important role in the infancy of British television. He earned an OBE for his reporting from North Africa, Yugoslavia and Buchenwald during the Second World War, an experience chronicled in his greatest prose work, Nine Rivers from Jordan. In 1950 he decamped to New York and later taught for many years at American colleges." "He was turbulently married to the actresses Shelah Richards and Betty Chancellor, and had four children, among them the novelist Jennifer Johnston. An Irishman of wide horizons and wit, and a prodigal dissenter, his multi-faceted life illuminates the cultural history of the past century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 370 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Denis Johnston.".
- catalog identifier "190186667X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Denis Johnston.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dublin : Lilliput,".
- catalog relation "Denis Johnston.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland".
- catalog subject "822/.912 B 21".
- catalog subject "Dramatists, Irish 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Johnston, Denis, 1901-1984.".
- catalog subject "PR6019.O397 Z53 2002".
- catalog subject "Theatrical producers and directors Ireland Biography.".
- catalog title "Denis Johnston : a life / Bernard Adams.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".