Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Henry De Vere Stacpoole ( born April 9, 1863 in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, † April 12, 1951 in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England) was an Irish writer.
Life
Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born the son of a clergyman, who led a church, and a Canadian. He was educated at Malvern College and received his medical degree in 1891 at St. George 's and St. Mary's Hospital in London. He then took a job as a ship's surgeon in the Royal Navy and traveled to the South Pacific. Early on he was interested in literature and after he befriended in the 1890s with the Anglo-American writer John Oliver Hobbes, he joined the literary circle Yellow Book. He began writing, but his first novels were crowned with great success germs, which is why he turned to the 1904 Royal Literary Fund and asked for financial help because he was suffering from sciatica and depression, which is why he can not find more work and his income of £ 150, which he earned by writing, can not live.
However, were his next two novels, The Crimson Azaleas (1907 ) and especially The Blue Lagoon ( 1908) bestseller, who solved his financial problems. He moved to Chelmsford, Essex, and later to Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. There he wrote several other novels, including history novels, a biography of the great French poet François Villon and Men and Mice, 1863-1942 (1942 ) and More Men and Mice (1945 ) two autobiographies. His works have been translated into several languages, including Dutch, Swedish, French, Italian and also into German.
As early as 1920 were with Garryowen, based on his 1909 novel, Garryowen: The Romance of filmed a Race -Horse, and The Man Who Lost Himself, based on his 1918 novel, The Man Who Lost Himself, the first two works. 1923 filmed and staged W. Bowden and Dick Cruickshanks Stacpooles previously known novel The Blue Lagoon for the first time. It should with The Blue Lagoon (1949) and The Blue Lagoon (1980 ) followed by two more films. 2012, with Blue Lagoon: The Awakening produced another variant.
Stacpoole was married twice. After his first wife died, he married in 1938 whose sister Florence Robson.