(Edward Fitz) Gerald Brenan

Travel writer and novelist, born in Sliema, Malta. He went to Spain in 1919 and settled in Yegen, an isolated village which became the focus of his classic South from Granada (1957). This was preceded by his best-known book, The Spanish Labyrinth (1943), still regarded as one of the most perceptive studies of modern Spain. He had a love affair with British artist Dora Carrington (1893–1932).

Gerald Brenan (1894–1987) was an English writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He spent some time training at Sandhurst, and then travelling in Europe, before serving in the British Army in France through World War I. After the war the artist John Hope-Johnstone introduced him to the Bloomsbury Group. During the Spanish Civil War and for many years afterwards they lived in Aldbourne in Wiltshire. A Picaresque Novel (1933) as George Beaton Doctor Partridge's Almanack for 1935 (1934) as George Beaton Shanahan's Old Shebeen, or The Mornin's Mornin' (1940) The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War (1943) The Spanish Scene (1946) Current Affairs No.7 The Face of Spain (1951) The Literature of the Spanish People - From Roman Times To The Present Day (1951) South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village (1957) A Holiday by the Sea (1961) A Life of One's Own: Childhood and Youth (1962) The Lighthouse Always Says Yes (1966) St John of the Cross: His life and Poetry (1973) with Lynda Nicholson A Personal Record, 1920-1972 (1975) The Magnetic Moment;