Biography on alexander baron

Alexander Baron was a British author and screenwriter.
Baron was a politically active man during the 1930s.
Alexander Baron (1917 – 1999) grew up in in Hackney, East London.

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Set in 1943. A rare insight into the emotional impact of war.

It’s 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombed-out city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain there. Yearning for some semblance of home life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form; tender, exploitative even cruel, and each doomed to end when the battalion moves on.

Many lives interleave in There’s No Home but at its heart is the love that develops between Graziella, a bright young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose faltering Italian and rough attempts at seduction mask a deeper sympathy. In this sensitive and authentic portrayal of men and women thrown together by chance and conflict, Baron offers us a rare insight into the emotional impact of war.

* A remarkably authentic and sensitive portrayal of men and women thrown together by chance and conflit.

* Written on Baron’s return from Wor

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Contributing Writer Nadia Valman explores novelist Alexander Baron’s return to his grandparents’ home in Cheshire St in his novel King Dido which was first published in 1969. One of the East End’s greatest writers, Baron is celebrated in a new publication, So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron, from Five Leaves Press.

Cheshire St by Philip Marriage, 1967

Alexander Baron (1917-99) grew up in a secular Jewish family in Dalston and Stoke Newington, and during the twenties his Saturday afternoons were spent visiting his grandparents in the East End. His mother, Fanny Levinson, was born in 1896 in Corbet’s Court, in the precincts of the Truman & Hanbury brewery. And, during Alexander’s childhood, his maternal grandparents lived in the Dutch Tenterground near Bell Lane, where he adored the noise and human warmth he experienced in the streets crowded with hawkers, itinerant musicians and chattering neighbours.

Yet it was his father’s dour family home in Spitalfields that sparked Alexander Baron’s literary imagination. His paternal grandfather, Simon Bernstein, born i

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Alexander Baron

British novelist and screenwriter (1917–1999)

Alexander Baron

Born	Joseph Alexander Bernstein (1917-12-04)4 December 1917 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Died	6 December 1999(1999-12-06) (aged 82) Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, England
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	British
Citizenship	London
Education	Hackney Downs School
Notable works	From the City from The Plough (1948), Rosie Hogarth (1951), The Human Kind (1953), The Lowlife (1963), King Dido (1969)

Alexander Baron ((1917-12-04)4 December 1917 – (1999-12-06)6 December 1999) was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day, From the City, from The Plough (1948), and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).

Early life

Baron's father was Barnett Bernstein, a Polish-Jewish immigrant to Britain who settled in the East End of London in 1908 and later worked as a master furrier. Baron was born in Maidenhead, where his mother Fanny (née Levinson) had been evacuated during Ze