James Kennaway
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| James Kennaway | |
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| Born | 5 June 1928 Auchterarder, Scotland |
| Died | 21 December 1968 (aged 40) England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1945-1968[1] |
James Kennaway (5 June 1928 – 21 December 1968) was a Scottish writer. He was born in Auchterarder in Perthshire and attended Glenalmond College.
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[edit] Career
His best known novel was his first, Tunes of Glory (1956), which was turned into a well-known film of the same name starring Alec Guinness and John Mills. It was a realistic work, set in the army just after the Second World War, and drawing to some extent on Kennaway's own experiences. This was not entirely typical of his later output, some of which was more experimental in nature.
His other works were Household Ghosts (1961), The Mindbenders (1963), The Bells of Shoreditch (1963), Some Gorgeous Accident (1967), The Cost of Living Like This (1969) and Silence (1972) - the final two works were posthumous. Household Ghosts was adapted as a feature film entitled Country Dance, while a short story, The Dollar Bottom, was adapted as a short film, winning an Academy Award in 1981.
A stage adaptation of Some Gorgeous Accident was presented at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2010.
He was also a successful screenwriter. His films include Violent Playground (1958), Tunes of Glory (1960) and Battle of Britain (1969).
Kennaway died of a heart attack while driving home to Lechlade, Gloucestershire from London at the age of only 40.[2][3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ NLS inventory of fonds
- ^ Plummer, Christopher In Spite of Myself: A Memoir Random House of Canada (1969) p. 568 ISBN 9780307396808
- ^ "James Kennaway, Novelist, 40, Dead". New York Times. December 25, 1968. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00912FA3F54157493C7AB1789D95F4C8685F9.
[edit] Further reading
- Susan Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers (Jonathan Cape) 1981 ISBN 0-224018-65-5
- Trevor Royle, James & Jim, A Biography of James Kennaway (Mainstream Publishing) 1983 ISBN 0-906391-46-6
[edit] External links
- James Kennaway at the Internet Movie Database
- Article from Canongate.net
- Article from The List magazine's 100 Best Scottish Books of all Time
- Violent Playground at the Internet Movie Database
- ((IMDB title|id=0065581|title=The Same Skin))
- Tunes of Glory at the Internet Movie Database
- Tunes of Glory at the TCM Movie Database
- Tunes of Glory at AllRovi
- Murphy, Robert "Tunes of Glory", Criterion Collection essay
- Battle of Britain at the Internet Movie Database
- Battle of Britain at the TCM Movie Database
- Battle of Britain at AllRovi
- Battle of Britain at Rotten Tomatoes
- Article from The Oscar Site
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