David Caute
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John David Caute (born 16 December 1936 in
Background
Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington College, Wadham College, Oxford[3] and St Antony's College, Oxford.
Career
A Henry Fellow at
Red Scare in 1940s and 1950s America, was praised by Tribune magazine.[5] He has been a JP and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
.
Works
Novels
- At Fever Pitch, London: Deutsch, 1959; New York: Pantheon, 1959. - winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
- Comrade Jacob, London: Deutsch, 1961; New York: Pantheon, 1962.
- The Decline of the West, London: Deutsch, 1966; New York: Macmillan, 1966.
- The Occupation, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
- The Baby-Sitters, as John Salisbury. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Antheneum, 1978; republished as The Hour Before Midnight, New York: Dell, 1980.
- Moscow Gold, as John Salisbury. London: Futura, 1980.
- The K-Factor, London: Joseph, 1983.
- News from Nowhere, London: Hamilton, 1986.
- Veronica; or, The Two Nations, London: Hamilton, 1989; New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
- The Women's Hour, London: Paladin, 1991.
- Dr. Orwell and Mr. Blair, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
- Fatima's Scarf, London: Totterdown Books, 1998.
- Doubles, London, Totterdown Books, 2016
Non-Fiction
- Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914-1960, London: Deutsch, 1964; New York: Macmillan, 1964.
- The Left in Europe Since 1789, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
- Fanon, London: Fontana Modern Masters, 1970; as Frantz Fanon, New York: Viking, 1970.
- The Illusion: An Essay on Politics, Theatre and the Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
- The Fellow-Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973; New York: Macmillan, 1973; revised edition, as The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
- Collisions: Essays and Reviews, London: Quartet Books, 1974.
- Cuba, Yes?, London: Secker & Warbung, 1974; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
- The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower, London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
- Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, London: Allen Lane, 1983; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1983.
- The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State, London: Hamilton, 1986.
- Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades, London: Hamilton, 1988; as The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, New York: Harper & Row, 1988.[6]
- Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Marechera and the Colonel: A Zimbabwean Writer and the Claims of the State, London: Totterdown Books, 2009.
- Politics and the Novel During the Cold War, New Jersey: Transaction, 2010.
- Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, London: Yale University Press, 2013.
- Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century", London: Verso, 2022
As Editor
- The Essential Writings of Karl Marx, London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967; New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Drama
- The Demonstration: A Play, London: Deutsch, 1970. Performed at the Nottingham Playhouse, 1969, Unity Theatre, 1970, and Junges Theater, Hamburg, 1971
- The Zimbabwe Tapes, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1983
- Henry and the Dogs, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1986
- Sanctions, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1988
- Animal Fun Park, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1995
References
- ^
Woods, Tim (2001). Who's who of twentieth century novelists. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 0-203-18802-0.
- ^
Rodden, John (1999). Lionel Trilling and the critics: opposing selves. ISBN 0-8032-3922-X.
- ^ a b James Vinson, D. L. Kirkpatrick Contemporary Novelists, St James' Press, 1986, p. 179
- ^ Tibbetts, John C. “'Winstanley'; or, Kevin Brownlow Camps Out on St. George's Hill". Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, 2003, (pp. 312–318).
- ^ "The Great Fear chronicles a sad time in American history, but it's good that Caute has brought his committed and informed mind to bear on it". Jim Burns, "America's frenzied witch-hunting years", Tribune, 13 October 1978.
- ^ "BEST SELLERS: APRIL 10, 1988". The New York Times. 10 April 1988.