Joyce cary, author, is born in derry

December 7th , 1888

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official.

His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse’s Mouth.

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was born in 1888 in his grandparents’ home, which was above the Belfast Bank on Shipquay Street in Derry in Ulster, the Northern province in Ireland.

Notable Works

Some of his notable works include the “First Trilogy” consisting of “Herself Surprised” (1941), “To Be a Pilgrim” (1942), and “The Horse’s Mouth” (1944). “The Horse’s Mouth” is perhaps his most famous work and was adapted into a film in 1958, starring Alec Guinness.

The Horse's Mouth

Selected works

  • Verse (as Arthur Cary, 1908)
  • Aissa Saved (1932)
  • An American Visitor (1933)
  • The African Witch (1936)
  • Castle Corner (1938)
  • Power in Men (1939)
  • Mister Johnson (1939)
  • Charley is My Darling (1940)
  • A House of Children (1941)
  • Herself Surprised (1941)
  • The Case for African Freedom (1941)
  • To Be a Pilgrim (1942)
  • Process of Real Freedom (1943)
  • The Horse’s Mouth (1944)
  • Marching Soldier (1945)
  • The Moonlight (1946)
  • Britain and West Africa (1947)
  • The Drunken Sailor: A Ballad-Epic (1947)
  • A Fearful Joy (1949)
  • Prisoner of Grace (1952)
  • Except the Lord (1953)
  • Not Honour More (1955)
  • The Old Strife at Plant’s (1956)
  • Art and Reality (1958)
  • The Captive and the Free (1959)
  • Spring Song and other Stories (1960)
  • The Case for African Freedom, and Other Writings on Africa (1962)
  • Memoir of the Bobotes (1964)
  • Cock Jarvis: An Unfinished Novel (1974)
  • Selected Essays (1976), ed. Alan Bishop

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