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Dictionary of Literary Biography on John Brophy
John Brophy, who said that he wrote journalism "off the surface of my mind" and kept "its depths for gestating and producing novels," was born in Liverpool on 6 December 1899 to John and Agnes Bodell Brophy. When World War I broke out in 1914, he ran away from home to join the army, serving in the infantry in France and Belgium. After the war he received a bachelor of arts degree at Liverpool University and spent a year at Durham University. In 1924 he married Charis Weare Grundy, the daughter of a Chicago clergyman, and took a teaching job in Egypt; they returned to England two years later when Charis fell ill. Brophy got a job on the advertising staff of a large store in Liverpool, then moved to London to become head copywriter for a leading British advertising firm. Later he was the chief reviewer of fiction for the Daily...
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