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Edward Solomon Hyams (1910-1975) was a British writer. Hyams was known for his writings as a French scholar and socialist historian.〔 Miles Hadfield, Robert Harling and Leonie Highton ''British gardeners: a biographical dictionary'' Zwemmer, 1980 (p. 159). ISBN 0302005412〕 ==Life== Hyams spent his early adulthood (1929-1933) as a factory worker.〔John Wakeman, ''World Authors 1950-1970 : a companion volume to Twentieth Century Authors''. New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 1975. ISBN 0824204190. (pp. 697-99).〕 He married Hilda Aylett in 1933.〔 Hyams published his first novel, ''The Wings of the Morning'' in 1939.〔 In the 1930s, Hyams was a pacifist and a member of the Peace Pledge Union, but abandoned pacifism upon the outbreak of the Second World War.〔Martin Ceadel, '' Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : the defining of a faith'' Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980. ISBN 0198218826 (p.2).〕 Hyams joined the Royal Air Force but was disqualified from being a pilot because of his poor eyesight.〔 Hyams then applied for a transfer to the Royal Navy, which was granted; he spent the rest of the war in the Navy.〔 Hyams began submitting short fiction to the BBC Third Programme and the ''New Statesman'' in the 1950s; after they were accepted, he became a regular contributor to both.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Hyams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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