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> > One of the greatest memoirists of the century was Ford Madox Ford, who,
> >  every biographer insists, never spoke a true word in his life.
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> FMF another of my favored authors. How 'bout Joyce Cary?

I just reread the Horses Mouth last year and found it as wonderful as I had
30 years ago.

Don't know much of anything about his life, though, except that he spent a
fair amount of time in Africa, which never left any of the Brits without
developing a cruel streak.

Bruce