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British writer (1914–1976)
Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976)[2]
Early life [ edit ]
MacInnes was born in London , son of singer James Campbell McInnes and novelist Angela Mackail , who was the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and also related to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin . MacInnes's parents divorced in 1917.[1] [3] Malvern , Melbourne [1] Scotch College and, for much of his childhood, was known as Colin Thirkell, the surname of his mother's second husband.[1] [4]
He had an older brother, Graham McInnes, and a younger half-brother, Lance Thirkell.[1]
He worked in Brussels from 1930 until 1935, then studied painting in London at the London Polytechnic school and the School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road .
Towards the end of his life, he stayed at the home of Martin Green , his publisher, and Green's wife Fiona, in Fitzrovia , where MacInnes spent time, regarding their small family as his own adoptive one until his death.[5]
MacInnes served in the British Intelligence Corps during the Second World War , and worked in occupied Germany after the European armistice. These experiences resulted in the writing of his first novel, To the Victors the Spoils BBC Radio until he could earn a living from his writing.[4]
He was the author of a number of books depicting London youth and black immigrant culture during the 1950s, in particular City of Spades Absolute Beginners Mr Love & Justice [6] Notting Hill area of London, then a poor and racially mixed area, home to many new immigrants and which suffered a race riot during 1958. Openly bisexual ,[7] urban squalor , racial issues, bisexuality, drugs, anarchy, and "decadence".[8]
Mr Love & Justice concerns two characters, Frank Love and Edward Justice, during late 1950s London. Mr Love is a novice ponce (pimp ); Mr Justice is a police officer newly transferred to the plain-clothes division of the Vice Squad. Gradually their lives intermesh.
Adaptations and influence [ edit ]
Absolute Beginners Julien Temple .[9] Roy Williams was performed at the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith , London.[8]
David Bowie appeared in the film Absolute Beginners title song , which was a hit around the world.[10]
City of Spades Biyi Bandele as a radio play , directed by Toby Swift , broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April 2001.[11]
MacInnes occurs as a character in Tainted Love (2005), Stewart Home 's novel of 1960s and 1970s counterculture.[12]
Billy Bragg 's albums England, Half English Mr. Love & Justice
The Jam released a single called "Absolute Beginners " in 1981.
Bibliography [ edit ]
To the Victor the Spoils (MacGibbon & Kee , 1950; Allison & Busby , 1986)
June in Her Spring (MacGibbon & Kee, 1952; Faber & Faber , 2008)
City of Spades
Absolute Beginners
Mr Love & Justice (MacGibbon & Kee, 1960; Allison & Busby, 1980)
England, Half English (MacGibbon & Kee, 1961) – a collection of previously published journalism
London, City of Any Dream (Thames & Hudson , 1962) – photo essay
Australia and New Zealand (Time Life, 1964)
All Day Saturday (MacGibbon & Kee, 1966)
Sweet Saturday Night (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967) – a history of British musichall
Westward to Laughter (MacGibbon & Kee, 1969)
Three Years to Play
Loving Them Both: A Study of Bisexuality (Martin Brian and O'Keeffe, 1973)
Out of the Garden (HarperCollins , 1974)
No Novel Reader (Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1975)
Out of the Way: Later Essays (Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1980)
Absolute MacInnes: The Best of Colin MacInnes (Allison & Busby, 1985)
Fancy Free Unpublished novel (MS and typescript); gifted to Fiona Green, 1973
Visions of London (MacGibbon & Kee 1969)
Further reading [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Colin MacInnes" . www.nndb.com . Retrieved 9 August 2019 .
^ Hall, Anne (2021). Angela Thirkell A Writer's Life . Unicorn. pp. 73–74.
^ a b Biographical note Archived 16 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Colin MacInnes Papers), River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
^ Tony Gould, Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes , Allison & Busby , 1983.
^ Nick Bentley, "Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners" Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London.
^ Colin MacInnes, Loving Them Both: Study of Bisexuality and Bisexuals , London: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe, May 1973, ISBN 0-85616-230-2 .
^ a b Ed Vulliamy (15 April 2007). "Absolute MacInnes" . The Observer . Retrieved 19 November 2008 .
^ "Absolute Beginners (1986)" , IMDb.
^ LeRoy, Dan. "Absolute Beginners – Original Soundtrack". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
^ City of Spades Archived 28 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine , BBC – Saturday Play.
^ Stewart Home, Tainted Love , London: Virgin Books, 2005.
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