In his rise from an obscure poet to the author of those best-selling novels known as the ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Lawrence Durrell had T. S. Eliot as his editor, and the Eliot he remembers, laughing, encouraging, and criticizing, is very different from that somewhat solemn picture of the Nobel Prize winner.
Poet and novelist, LAWRENCE DURRELL was born in India and was educated in England at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury. He served as a Foreign Service press officer in Athens, Cairo, Rhodes, and Belgrade, and from this experience has come the amusing story which follows. Mr. Durrell’s latest novel, Justine, which was a Book Society Recommendation in England, has recently been published in this country by Dutton.