- Honor Tracy
Honor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield, (
October 19 ,1913 –June 13 ,1989 ), who was a British writer, born atBury St. Edmunds ,Suffolk .She was attached to the British Ministry of Information during
World War II , as a Japanese specialist. She worked forThe Observer newspaper as a columnist and she was a long-time foreign correspondent, but Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best-known novels are "The Straight and Narrow Path" (1956), "The Quiet End of Evening" (1972), and "The Ballad of Castle Reef" (1979). Her best-known travel book is "Winter in Castille" (1974).She settled in
Achill Island ,Co. Mayo ,Ireland and died in 1989.Betjeman hoax
A N Wilson's biography of
Sir John Betjeman , published in August 2006, included a letter to Tracy which purported to be by Betjeman detailing a previously unknown love affair. They had worked together at theAdmiralty during the war. The letter turned out to be a hoax on Wilson, containing an acrostic spelling out an insulting message to him.cite news
last = Brooks
first = Richard
title = Betjeman biographer confesses to literary hoax
publisher = The Sunday Times
date =2006-09-03
url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2340567,00.html
accessdate = 2006-09-25 ]Novels
Her novels include
*"The Straight and Narrow Path" (London, Methuen / New York, Random House 1956);
*"A Number of Things" (Methuen / Random House, 1960);
*"A Season of Mists" (Methuen / Random House, 1961);
*"The First Day of Friday" (Methuen / Random House, 1963);
*"Men at Work" (Methuen / Random House, 1967);
*"The Beauty of the World" (Methuen / Random House, 1967);
*"Settled in Chambers" (Methuen / Random House 1968);
*"Butterflies of the Province" (New York, Random House /London, Eyre Methuen, 1970);
*"The Quiet End of Evening" ( Random House / Eyre Methuen, 1972).Notes and references
* [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/honor-lilbush-wingfield-tracy-dlb/ Honor (Lilbush Wingfield) Tracy] Biography at Dictionary of Literary Biography, quoted at Bookrags.com Accessed June 2007
* [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/t/Tracy,H/life.htm Honor Tracy] entry at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. Accessed June 2007
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