Goronwy Rees

Goronwy Rees

Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer. He was educated at the University of Oxford.

He was during the 1930s a Marxist intellectual, and in contact with the Cambridge Five spy ring through Guy Burgess. Right at the end of his life he admitted spying for the USSR for a short time, and accused MI5 man Guy Liddell also of being a spy. He also sat on the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

Works

*"The Summer Flood" (1932)
*"Where No Wounds Were" (1950)
*"A Bundle of Sensations: Sketches in Autobiography" (1961)
*"Multimillionaires: Six Studies In Wealth" (1961)
*"The Rhine" (1967)
*"St Michael: A History of Marks & Spencer" (1969)
*"The Great Slump: Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1933" (1970)
*"Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch" (1970) translator
*"A Chapter of Accidents" (1972)
*"Brief Encounters" (1974)

References

*Jenny Rees (1994) "Looking for Mr. Nobody. The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees"

External links

* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SSrees.htm Page at Spartacus]


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