List Of Writers
WHITE, JON MANCHIP
Welsh–American writer who has published over 30 books of fiction and non–fiction. Jon traces his ancestry to seafaring stock-sailors and shipowners-around the Bristol Channel and, in particular, Cardiff, where he was born in 1924. His father, Gwilym Manchip White, was part owner and managing director of the Taff Vale Shipping Company. Jon went to St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War: he joined the Navy and took part in the convoys that ferried troops and materials across the Atlantic. After graduating, he moved to London and became story editor for the newly established BBC Television Service. He then served as an officer in the British Foreign Service, before resigning to concentrate on his writing. From 1956 to 1967 he worked as a screenwriter. In 1967 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he eventually received a full professorship. He then moved on to found the creative
writing program at the University of Tennessee.
Jon Manchip White has become an American citizen. He continues to live and write in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Selected Publications:
Fiction:
Mask of Dust (Hodder & Stoughton)
Build Us A Dam (Hodder & Stoughton, 1955)
The Girl from Indiana (Hodder & Stoughton, 1956)
No Home but Heaven (Hodder & Stoughton, 1957)
The Mercenaries (Long, 1958)
Hour of the Rat (Hutchinson, 1962)
The Rose in the Brandy Glass (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965)
Nightclimber (Chatto & Windus, 1968)
The Game of Troy (Chatto & Windus, 1971)
The Garden Game (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Send for Mr. Robinson (Panther, 1974)
The Moscow Papers (Major Books, 1979)
Death by Dreaming (Apple-Wood Books, 1981)
Fevers and Chills (Nightclimber, The Game of Troy, The Garden Game) (Foul Play Press, 1983)
The Last Grand Master (Countryman Press, 1985)
Turn_Waves (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992)
Solo Goya (Iris Press, 2007)
Poetry:
Dragon (Fortune Press, 1943)
Salamander (Fortune Press, 1946)
The Rout of San Romano (Hand & Flower Press, 1952)
The Mountain Lion (Chatto & Windus, 1971)
Echoes and Shadows (The Tartarus Press, 2003)
Non-fiction:
Ancient Egypt (Allen Wingate, 1952)
Anthropology (English Universities Press, 1954)
Marshal of France: The Life and times of Maurice, Comte de Saxe (Hamish Hamilton, 1962)
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (Batsford, 1964)
Diego Velázques, Painter and Courtier (Hamish Hamilton, 1969)
The Land God Made in Anger: Reflections on a Journey through South West Africa (Allen & Unwin, 1969)
Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire (Hamish Hamilton, 1971)
A World Elsewhere: One Man’s Fascination with the American Southwest (Crowell, 1975)
Everyday Life of the North American Indians (Batsford, 1979)
The Journeying Boy: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991)
Contributed to:
What to Do When the Russians Come: A Survivors’ Handbook (co-writer) (Stein & Day, 1984)