Brian Moore was born August 25, 1921 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was an Irish novelist that immigrated to Canada and then to the United States. He grew up in a large family with eight siblings. His dad, named James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and the first Catholic to sit on the senate of Queen’s University, while his mom, Eileen McFadden Moore, was a farmer’s daughter from County Donegal, was a nurse.
He was known as a “writer’s writer”, composing novels that were quite different from one another in setting, voice, and incident however alike in their elegant, lucid, and vivid prose.
Books in order of publication:
Standalone Novels
| Sailor’s Leave / Wreath for a Redhead | (1951) | |
| The Executioners | (1951) | |
| French for Murder | (1954) | |
| The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | (1955) | |
| A Bullet For My Lady | (1955) | |
| The Feast Of Lupercal | (1957) | |
| Murder in Majorca (As: Michael Bryan) | (1957) | |
| Intent to Kill (As: Michael Bryan) | (1958) | |
| The Luck of Ginger Coffey | (1960) | |
| An Answer from Limbo | (1962) | |
| The Emperor of Ice Cream | (1965) | |
| I am Mary Dunne | (1968) | |
| Moment of Love | (1969) | |
| Fergus | (1970) | |
| Catholics | (1972) | |
| The Revolution Script | (1972) | |
| The Great Victorian Collection | (1975) | |
| The Doctor’s Wife | (1976) | |
| The Mangan Inheritance | (1979) | |
| The Temptation of Eileen Hughes | (1981) | |
| Cold Heaven | (1983) | |
| Black Robe | (1985) | |
| The Colour of Blood | (1987) | |
| Lies of Silence | (1990) | |
| No Other life | (1993) | |
| The Statement | (1995) | |
| The Magician’s Wife | (1997) |
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