Aj cronin biography
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| Born | Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896-07-19)19 July 1896 Cardross, Scotland |
| Died | 6 January 1981(1981-01-06) (aged 84) Montreux, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Physician, novelist |
Archibald Joseph Cronin, MB, ChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.[1] His best-known novel was The Citadel, about a doctor in a Welsh ing village who quickly moves up the career ladder in London. Cronin had observed this scene closely as a Medical Inspector of Mines and later as a doctor in Harley Street. This book promoted controversial new ideas about medical ethics which largely inspired the launch of the National Health Service. Another popular mining novel, set in the North-east, was The Stars Look Down. Both these novels were adapted for film, as were Hatter's Castle, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years. His novella Country Doctor was adap
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A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin) Biography
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(1896–1981), (Archibald Joseph Cronin), Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, The Stars Look Down
Scottishnovelist, born into an Irish-Scottish Catholic family in Cardross, Dumbartonshire, and educated at the University of Glasgow, where he studied medicine. He served in the First World War as a surgeon sublieutenant with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; he then practised as a GP in Glasgow and London, and as a medical inspector of mines in South Wales. His first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), set in a small Scottish town, combines a doomed love story with an account of the rise and fall of James Brodie, a hatter of overweening social ambition. The novel was hugely successful and established Cronin as a popular realist writer. Having given up medicine, Cronin produced a stream of bestsellers displaying the same narrative skill and humane spirit. The best known of these is The Citadel (1937), a moral tale of a young
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Archibald Joseph Cronin - better known simply as A.J. Cronin - lived from 19 July 1896 to 6 January 1981. He was one of the most commercially successful Scottish writers of the 20th Century. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Cronin was born in Cardross in Dunbartonshire. He was an only child of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother, and was brought up by his mother as a Catholic after the death of his father. Religion was something that mattered more than it should have done in West Central Scotland at the time, and he talked years later of "A feeling of social inferiority... a sort of spiritual wound deriving from my religion."
He attended Dumbarton Academy and his obvious abilities won him a scholarship to study medicin at Glasgow University, where he met his wife, another medical student, Agnes Gibson. Cronin