Jeremy Brooks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jeremy Brooks

British writer

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1926

Place of Birth: Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1994

Profession: screenwriter, poet, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jeremy Brooks (17 December 1926 – 27 June 1994) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist.
He is best known for his novels (particularly Jampot Smith, Henry's War and Smith, As Hero) and for his stage adaptations of classic works, particularly a series of Maxim Gorky plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His novels were praised for their lyricism and for their "Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos".
Anthony Burgess, in The Novel Now said "Jeremy Brooks has come to considerable stature in Jampot Smith and Smith, as Hero: he has created one of the few really large picaresque characters in the post-war novel."