Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal | |
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Born | London | 27 January 1945
Occupation | novelist, biographer |
Period | 1960s– |
Genre | fiction; biography |
Subject | notable Victorian men |
Notable works | Baden-Powell (book) |
John Julian Timothy Jeal, known as Tim Jeal (born 27 January 1945), is a British
Early life
Tim Jeal was born in London, 27 January 1945 to civil servant Clifford Freeman Jeal and Norah Margaret Sabine,[1] daughter of Sir Thomas Edward Sabine Pasley, 3rd Baronet, and Constance Wilmot Annie Hastings, daughter of the 14th Earl of Huntingdon. Jeal was educated at Westminster School, London, and Christ Church, Oxford.[2] Clifford Jeal, about whom his son published a memoir in 2004, was a Christian mystic and follower of the Anglican Order Of The Cross fellowship and as such practised pacifism and vegetarianism.[3]
Jeal is married to Joyce Jeal and they have three daughters.[4]
Career
Television
From 1966 to 1970, he worked for BBC Television in the features group.[5]
Writing
Jeal has been writing books since the 1960s, for London and New York-based publishers. Although most of his works are fictional, he is best known for his biographies.[4]
His biography, Livingstone (1973), based on private letters, diaries and archives, was the first to describe the explorer/missionary's faults and failings and to reveal the man behind the icon. It became the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel.[6] Livingstone has never been out of print since first publication in 1973 and in 2013 was reissued in a revised and expanded edition by Yale University Press.
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Tim Jeal had unique access to the massive Stanley collection in the
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (2011) is about the
Bibliography
Fiction
- For Love or Money (1967)
- Somewhere Beyond Reproach (1968)
- Cushing's Crusade (1974)
- Until the Colours Fade (1976)
- A Marriage of Convenience (1979)
- The Adventures of Madelene and Louisa, editor (1980)
- Carnforth's Creation (1983)
- For God or Glory (1996) US; published in UK as The Missionary's Wife (1997)
- Deep Water (2000)
Non-fiction
- Livingstone (1973)
- Baden-Powell (1989)
- Swimming with My Father (2004) (memoir)
- Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (2007)
- Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (2011)
Awards and honours
- 1973 New York Times Notable Book of the Yearselection for Livingstone
- 1975 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner for Cushing's Crusade[17]
- 1989 New York Times Notable Book of the Yearselection for Baden-Powell.
- 2004 PEN/Ackerley Prizeshortlist for Swimming with my Father
- 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) finalist for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
- 2007 The Sunday Times "Biography of the Year" winner for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
- 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) winner for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer[18]
References
- ^ Newnham College Register 1871-1971: 1951-1970, Newnham College, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 45
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3065
- ^ Jeal, Swimming with my Father, 2004
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 25 August 2006.
- ^ Author details to Baden-Powell, Pimlico edition, 1991
- ^ "Tim Jeal". faber.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ Steiner, Zara (1 April 1990). "There Is a Brotherhood of Boys". The New York Times.
- ^ Robert Campbell (1993) Origins of the Scouts, Sydney, Australia
- ^ Porter, Bernard (5 May 2007). "Did he puff his crimes to please a bloodthirsty readership?, review of Jeal's Stanley". London Review of Books. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ Carey, John (18 March 2007). "Sunday Times". A Good Man in Africa.
- ^ Gardam, Tim (1 April 2007). "Observer". Livingstone was just the beginning...
- ^ Rushby, Kevin (23 March 2007). "A plinth for the fallen idol". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
- ^ Roberts, Jason (23 December 2007). "Washington Post". The Great Opportunist.
- ^ Theroux, Paul (30 September 2007). "New York Times Book Review". Stanley, I Presume.
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- ^ "The Mail on Sunday/John Llewllyn Rhys Prize". Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ "The National Book Critics Circle Award" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 7 March 2008.