Gerald Brenan | |
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Born | Edward FitzGerald Brenan 7 April 1894 |
Died | 19 January 1987 Alhaurin el Grande, Spain | (aged 92)
Occupation(s) | Author, historian |
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987)[2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was appointed CBE[3] in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982.