Brian Moore (novelist)

Brian Moore (writer) Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999) was a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, born in a large Roman Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He became in 1948 an immigrant in Canada and acquired Canadian citizenship. In 1959 he moved to the United States. For 15 years he taught creative writing at UCLA. His Fantasy literature fantasy novel The Great Victorian Collection won the 1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His acclaimed novel Judith Hearne (1955, André Deutsch) was made into Jack Clayton's 1987 film The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins. Quotes All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the world, and there comes a point in people's lives, usually in their 30's, when their faith is shaken in that belief. A lot of my books have dealt with that moment of crisis. Because I've tried to be truthful, the Character (arts) characters rarely solve their problems. as quoted by Mel Gussow in: Outrage Over a Long Delay in Justice The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/13/books/outrage-over-a-long-delay-in-justice.html August 13, 1996 p. 11, Section C Judith Hearne (1955), later re-titled The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne The street outside was a university bywater, once a good residential area, which had lately been reduced to the level of taking in paying guests. Miss Hearne stared at the houses opposite and thought of her aunt's day when there were only private families in this street, at least one maid to every house, and dinner was at night, not at noon. All gone now, all those people dead and all the houses partitioned off into flats, the bedrooms cut in two, kitchenettes jammed into linen closets, linoleum on the floors and 'To Let' cards in the the bay windows. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne New York Review Books classics New York Review of Books 2010 9781590173497 https://books.google.com/books?id=ziBOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 7–8 (240 pages; afterword by Mary Gordon (writer) Mary Gordon; 1st edition 1955) She came out near the Belfast Harbour docks and turned hastily back towards the Belfast City Centre centre of the city. The docks were no place for a woman to be wandering about, in among all those rough pubs and the Salvation Army. At Royal Avenue, Belfast Castle Junction, the clock said half-past four. Go home. She walked back toward Camden Street. It began to drizzle but she was thinking about money, so she paid it no heed. p. 32 Sunday was the great day of the week. To begin with, there was Mass in the Catholic Church Mass, early Mass with Holy Communion, or a late Mass where you were likely to see a lot of people. The special thing about Sunday Mass was that for once everyone was doing the same thing. Age, income, station in life, it made no difference: you all went to Mass, said the same prayers and listened to the same sermons. Miss Hearne put loneliness aside on a Sunday morning. p. 53 External links Catholics (1973) (ITV Sunday Night Theatre) - Brian Moore Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Raf Vallone November 24, 2025 Public Domain Channel, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNshnvYJlY (based on the 1972 novel Catholics (novel) Catholics — novel and Catholics (ITV Sunday Night Theatre) screenplay by Brian Moore) Category:1921 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Fantasy authors Category:Journalists from Northern Ireland Category:Novelists from Northern Ireland Category:People from Belfast Category:Screenwriters from Northern Ireland Category:Short story writers from Northern Ireland Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty