Bruce Marshall

Claude Cunningham Bruce Marshall, known as Bruce Marshall (June 24, 1899 – June 18, 1987) was a prolific Scots writer who wrote fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of topics and genres.

Marshall was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Claude Niven Marshall and Annie Margaret (Bruce) Marshall. He was educated at St. Andrews. He became a Roman Catholic in 1917. He served as a private in the Highland Light Infantry. He was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1918, promoted Lieutenant in 1919 and invalided out in 1920. His war injuries resulted in the amputation of one leg. In 1928 he married Mary Pearson Clark (1908-1987). After the war he completed his education in Scotland, became an auditor, and moved to France where he worked in the Paris branch of Peat Marwick Mitchell. He joined the Royal Army Pay Corps as a Lieutenant in 1940, transferred to the General List in 1945, assisting the French underground, and left the Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1946. After the war he returned to France. His 1947 novel "Vespers in Vienna" was the basis of the 1949 film "The Red Danube". His 1952 book, "The White Rabbit", recounts the WWII exploits of secret agent F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas. He received the 1959 Wlodimierz Petrzak prize.

Marshall died in Biot, France.

Bibliography

* "This Sorry Scheme" (1924)
* "The Stooping Venus; a Novel" (1926)
* "And There Were Giants ..." (1927)
* "The Other Mary" (1927)
* "High Brows, an Extravaganza of Manners—Mostly Bad ..." (1929)
* "The Little Friend" (1929)
* "The Rough House, a possibility" (1930)
* "The Uncertain Glory" (1935)
* "Luckypenny" (1937)
* "Children of This Earth" (1930)
* "Prayer for the Living" (1934)
* "Canon to Right of Them" (1936)
* "Father Malachy's Miracle" (1938) - film adaption in 1961 by Bernhard Wicki
* "Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill" (1941)
* "Yellow Tapers for Paris, a Dirge" (1943)
* "All Glorious Within" (1944)
* "The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith" (1945)
* "All Glorious Within" (1946)
* "George Brown's Schooldays" (1946)
* "Yellow Tapers for Paris" (1946)
* "Vespers in Vienna" (1947)
* "To Every Man a Penny" (1949)
* Contribution to "A Time to Laugh: A Risible Reader by Catholic Writers", edited by Paul J. Phelan (1949)
* "The Curé of Ars," chapter in "Saints for Now", edited by Clare Boothe Luce (1952)
* Introduction to "Rue Notre Dame", by Daniel Pezeril (1953)
* "The Fair Bride, a Novel" (1953)
* "The White Rabbit" (1953)
* "Thoughts of My Cats" (1954)
* "Only Fade Away" (1954)
* Foreword to "Top Secret Mission", by madelaine Duke (1955)
* "Girl in May" (1956)
* "The Accounting" (UK title: "The Bank Audit") (1958)
* "Satan and Cardinal Campbell" (1959)
* "A Thread of Scarlet" (1959)
* "The Divided Lady" (1960)
* "A Girl from Lübeck" (1962)
* "The Month of the Falling Leaves" (1963)
* "Father Hilary's Holiday" (1965)
* "The Bishop: a Novel" (1970)
* "The Black Oxen: a Novel" (1972)
* "Urban the Ninth" (1973)
* "Operation Iscariot" (1974)
* "Marx the First" (1975)
* "Peter the Second" (1976)
* "The Yellow Streak" (1977)
* "A Foot in the Grave" (1987)

References

* "Contemporary Authors", Vols. 5-8, p. 733 (First Revision, 1969)
* "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Vol. 36, pp. 835-836 (2000)

External links

* [http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/marsharr.htm Georgetown Bruce Marshall Papers]
* [http://www.traces-cl.com/july02/theman.htm| Appreciation by Alessandro Banfi]
* [http://www.purvisfamilytree.com/showhistory.php?personID=I338&tree=purvis&ordernum=0&PHPSESSID=4e52a96dfeda01bc0f09e6cf64bdfb6f| Biography in Purvis Family Tree]