David Caute

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John David Caute (born 16 December 1936 in

Alexandria, Egypt) is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.[1][2]

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

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

  1. ^ Woods, Tim (2001). Who's who of twentieth century novelists. Routledge. p. 74. .
  2. ^ Rodden, John (1999). Lionel Trilling and the critics: opposing selves. .
  3. ^ a b James Vinson, D. L. Kirkpatrick Contemporary Novelists, St James' Press, 1986, p. 179
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "BEST SELLERS: APRIL 10, 1988". The New York Times. 10 April 1988.

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