22-629: The Mimic Men is a novel by V. S. Naipaul , first published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1967. Not long after finishing A Flag on the Island , Naipaul began work on the novel The Mimic Men , though for almost a year he did not make significant progress. At the end of this period, he was offered a Writer-in-Residence fellowship at Makerere University in Kampala , Uganda. There, in early 1966, Naipaul began to rewrite his material, and went on to complete
44-579: A CBE . Deutsch died in London on 11 April 2000, aged 82. Author John le Carré based his recurring character Toby Esterhase on Deutsch, both in physical appearance and in replicating Deutsch's unique manner of speech: When David [i.e. Le Carré] came to write his novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , he would draw on Deutsch for his character Toby Esterhase, who like his original would speak his own form of English. The name "André Deutsch" became an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group , which purchased
66-548: A Polish -born immigrant, was a paperhanger , then a storekeeper. His mother was first-generation Russian American . William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. He derived his last name from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem ". (His brother Aron, Leon's uncle, took the name Yerushalmi.) "He was basically a failure", Uris later said of his father. "I think his personality
88-591: A court case for defamation ( Dering v Uris ) that arose from Uris's earlier best-selling novel Exodus . It was Uris's second consecutive #1 New York Times Best Seller . The Haj was set in the history of the Middle East. He also wrote the screenplays for Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral . Uris was married three times. His first wife was Betty Beck, whom he married in 1945. They had three children before divorcing in 1968. He then married Marjorie Edwards in 1968, who committed suicide by gunshot
110-639: A novel depicting the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the Pacific. He then went to Warner Brothers in Hollywood helping to write the eponymous movie which was extremely popular with the public, but not the critics. He went on to write The Angry Hills , a novel set in war-time Greece. His best-known work may be Exodus , which was published in 1958. Most sources indicate that Uris, motivated by an intense interest in Israel, financed his research for
132-521: A number of British colonies in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Singh shared political power with a more powerful Afro-Caribbean politician. Soon the memoirs take on a more personal aspect. There are flashbacks to the formative and defining periods of Singh's life. In many of these, during crucial moments, whether during his childhood, his married life, or his political career, he appears to abandon engagement and enterprise. He rationalises later that these belong only to fully made societies. When The Mimic Men
154-727: The United States Marine Corps . He served in the South Pacific with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines Regiment , where he was stationed in New Zealand, and fought as a radioman in combat on Guadalcanal and Tarawa from 1942 through 1944. He was sent to the US after suffering from dengue fever , malaria and a recurrence of asthma that made him miss the devastation of his battalion at the Battle of Saipan , which
176-541: The Berlin Blockade in 1949; Trinity , about Irish nationalism , and the sequel, Redemption , covering the early 20th century and World War I . QB VII , about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp , is a dramatic four-part courtroom novel written by Uris that was published in 1970, highlighting the events leading to a libel trial in the United Kingdom. It is loosely based on
198-405: The book and lyrics. Exodus illustrated the history of Palestine from the late 19th century through the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Exodus was also extraordinarily influential among Russian Refuseniks . Two typewritten Russian translations were circulated as samizdat – illegal, hand-copied works that were passed secretly from hand to hand – and the story was retold orally in
220-484: The company from Video Collection International Plc in 2000. Leon Uris Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books, including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976). Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland , the son of Jewish American parents Wolf William and Anna (née Blumberg) Uris. His father,
242-480: The descriptions of the fictional tropical island of Isabella. The subject of sex appears explicitly for the first time in Naipaul's work. The plot, to the extent that there is one, is centred on Ralph Singh, an Indo-Caribbean politician from Isabella who narrates in the first person. Singh is in exile in London and attempting to write his political memoirs. Earlier, in the immediate aftermath of decolonisation in
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#1732791442775264-639: The following year. His third and last wife was photographer Jill Peabody, daughter of Frances Gleason and Alfred Peabody of Boston. They had two children. They married in 1970, when Jill was 22 years old and he was 45. He and wife Jill worked together on his book Ireland: A Terrible Beauty , for which she provided illustrations and on Jerusalem: A Song of Songs . They divorced in 1988, and soon after Uris settled in New York City. Leon Uris died of kidney failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island in 2003, aged 78. His papers can be found at
286-507: The novel by selling the film rights in advance to MGM and by writing newspaper articles about the Sinai campaign , which is said to have involved two years of research, and thousands of interviews. It was a worldwide best-seller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman , directed by Otto Preminger , as well as into a short-lived Broadway musical, Ari , in 1971, for which Uris wrote
308-417: The novel quickly. The finished novel broke new ground for him. Unlike his earlier fiction, it is not comic. It does not unfold chronologically. Its language is allusive and ironic, and its overall structure is whimsical. It has strands of both fiction and non-fiction, a precursor of Naipaul's approach in later novels. It is intermittently dense, even obscure, but it also has beautiful passages, especially in
330-455: The prison camps, with the oral version eventually being written in a notebook which was passed from one generation of prisoners to the next. Uris's 1967 novel Topaz was adapted for the screen and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1969. His subsequent works included Mila 18 , about the Warsaw ghetto uprising; Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin , a chronicle which ends with the lifting of
352-771: The war Deutsch founded his first company, Allan Wingate, but after a few years was forced out by one of his directors, Anthony Gibb. André Deutsch Limited began trading in 1952. His small but influential publishing house was active until the 1990s, and included books by Jack Kerouac , Wole Soyinka , Earl Lovelace , Norman Mailer , George Mikes , V. S. Naipaul , Ogden Nash , Eric Williams , Andrew Robinson , Philip Roth , Art Spiegelman , John Updike , Margaret Atwood , Charles Gidley Wheeler , Helene Hanff , Peter Benchley , Leon Uris , Molly Keane , Michael Rosen , Quentin Blake , John Cunliffe , and Ludwig Bemelmans . Deutsch employed dedicated editor Diana Athill , who in 1952
374-467: Was a founding director of the publishing company that was given his name (and who in her memoir Stet described him as "possibly the most difficult man in London"). A number of book series were established including The Language Library, Grafton Books (works on librarianship, bibliography and book collecting) and the Introduces guides. In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours Deutsch was appointed
396-760: Was born on 15 November 1917 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a Jewish dentist. He attended school in Budapest and in Vienna, Austria. The Anschluss led to him fleeing Austria because he was Jewish, and in 1939, he settled in Britain, where he worked as floor manager at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. When Hungary entered the Second World War on the side of the Germans in 1941, Deutsch
418-609: Was featured in Battle Cry . While recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant; they married in 1945. Released from service he worked for a newspaper, and wrote in his spare time. Esquire magazine bought an article in 1950, and he began to devote himself to writing more seriously. Drawing on his experiences in Guadalcanal and Tarawa, he produced the best-selling Battle Cry ,
440-623: Was formed by the harsh realities of being a Jew in Czarist Russia . I think failure formed his character, made him bitter." At age six, Uris reportedly wrote an operetta inspired by the death of his dog. He attended schools in Norfolk , Virginia , and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, and failed English three times. When he was 17 and in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he enlisted in
462-455: Was interned for some weeks as an " enemy alien ". After having learned the business of publishing while working for Francis Aldor (Aldor Publications, London), with whom he had been interned on the Isle of Man and who had introduced him to the industry, Deutsch left Aldor's employment after a few months to continue his burgeoning publishing career with the firm of Nicholson & Watson. After
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#1732791442775484-457: Was published, it received generally positive critical notice. In particular, Caribbean politicians such as Michael Manley and Eric Williams weighed in, the latter writing, "V. S. Naipaul's description of West Indians as 'mimic men' is harsh but true ..." Andre Deutsch André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 – 11 April 2000) was a Hungarian-born British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951. Deutsch
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