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Article: The view from a baize door
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 26, 1996
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Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Vol II by Max Saunders, Oxford,
pounds 35
Nobody who cares about fiction can afford to ignore the
elaborate, imaginative, mould-breaking writings of Ford Madox Ford,
or the extent of his benevolent influence on younger writers -
Hemingway, Graham Greene and D.H. Lawrence were among the scores of
novelists whose careers benefited from Ford's shrewd advice.
Ford was rescued from near obscurity when Alan Judd read The
Good Soldier and decided to write a biography which would undo some
of the harm done to Ford by garrulous memoir-writers and by Arthur
Mizener, who believed them. Warm, fluent and percepand fiction were
interchangeable. He was never malicious. Ford's ...