In the history of letters, Hilaire Belloc is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Hilaire Belloc as French-English writer (1870–1953).
Hilaire Belloc was born at La Celle-Saint-Cloud in 1870. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He was educated at Balliol College and The Oratory School.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as writer, poet and politician.
The writing is recorded in English and French.
His work is classed as essay.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
Recognition followed: Knight Grand Officer of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (1934).
That the work was written from United Kingdom matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Hilaire Belloc died in 1953, aged 83. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Officer of the Order of St. Gregory the Great — 1934
- Genres: essay
