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James Kennaway

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Born: June 04 1928

Died: 2020 12 19681968

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James Kennaway was born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1928 and went to public school at Trinity College, Glenalmond. After serving as an officer with the Cameron Highlanders, he attended Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in economics and politics. After graduating, he worked as an editor for a London publishing firm and married his wife Susan in 1951; their sometimes turbulent relationship is documented in The Kennaway Papers , which she published after his death.

His first novel, Tunes of Glory , earned critical acclaim and was adapted by Kennaway for an Oscar-nominated motion picture starring Alec Guinness. His other novels include Household Ghosts , The Mind Benders , The Bells of Shoreditch and Some Gorgeous Accident . Two books, The Cost of Living Like This and Silence , a novella, appeared posthumously. Kennaway was also an accomplished screenwriter, writing several screenplays, three of them based on his own novels. At the age of 40, James Kennaway suffered a massive heart attack while driving home and died in a car crash just before Christmas in 1968.

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James Kennaway

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Books from James Kennaway

Tunes of Glory

Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus

The Cost of Living Like This

Household Ghosts

Silence

The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being

The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-Being

The History of Medicine in Context

The Battle of Britain (1969)

Tunes of Glory

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease (The History of Medicine in Context)

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Dollar Bottom & Taylor's Finest Hour