Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was an Anglo-Irish writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
He was awarded a CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List in 1982.
Librarian Note:
“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
Gerald Brenan
“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”
Gerald Brenan
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”
Gerald Brenan