Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was a British novelist, poet, and travel writer born in Jalandhar, India, to a family of the British Raj. He never felt at home in England—he called it "the English death"—and spent most of his life in the Mediterranean, living on Corfu, in Egypt, Rhodes, Cyprus, and finally Provence. His writing is saturated with the light, heat, and sensuality of those landscapes. He worked for the British Foreign Office during World War II, serving as a press attache in Alexandria, an experience that informed the political intrigues of his fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Alexandria Quartet.