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Gerald Hanley (17 February 1916 – 7 September 1992)〔(Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, ''The Independent'', 3 October 1992 ).〕 was a British novelist and travel writer of Irish descent. ==Biography== Hanley, born on 17 February 1916 in Liverpool (not County Cork, Ireland, as he claimed), was the youngest of a large, Irish-Liverpudleian Catholic family. Both his working class parents were from Ireland, his father Edward from Dublin, his mother Bridget from Cobh, County Cork, but were married in Liverpool in 1891.〔Chris Gostick, "Extra Material on James Hanley's ''Boy''" from the OneWorld Classics edition of ''Boy'' (2007).〕 His father Edward was a seaman, especially on Cunard liners, but he also some times worked on shore.〔Crew agreements, various archives.〕 In 1934 Gerald went to East Africa, where he worked on a farm in Kenya until the war in 1939.〔''A Dictionary of Irish Biography'', ed. Henry Boylan (1998).〕 This was arranged with the help of James Hanley's friend John Cowper Powys, whose brother William farmed in Kenya.〔John Cowper Powys, 1935 Diary, ms. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.〕 Joining the King's African Rifles of the British army on the outbreak of the Second World War, Hanley served in Somalia and in Burma, where ''Monsoon Victory'' (1946) is set.〔"Obituary", ''New York Times'' 25 September 1992.〕 Prior to this he had had a few short stories published.〔Irishwriters online.〕 While he published a number of novels he also wrote radio plays for the BBC as well as some film scripts, most notably ''The Blue Max'' (1966).〔Irishwriters online.〕 He was also one of several script writers for a life of Gandhi (1964). Parts of his script were used for the Richard Attenborough film ''Gandhi'' (see Attenborough's book on the subject).〔''The Times'', 29 Nov 1982; pg. 11; see also "Gandhi's Life As A Film", ''The Times'' 16 Dec 1964; pg. 7.〕 In 1950, Hanley went to the Punjab in India,〔"Obituary", ''New York Times''.〕 and he also lived in Srinagar, Pakistan,〔Dust jacket ''Drinkers of Darkness''.〕 where he was married to Asha Weymiss, a Brahmin woman who had been adopted as a child by an English woman working in India. He settled in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1954 with his first wife, Diana Fittall (some sources give a later date).〔''A Dictionary of Irish Biograph'' says the 1980s; "Obituary, ''The New York Time'' of 25 September 1992, says the 1960s.〕 He is survived by 7 children with Diana and two with Asha. His brother was the novelist James Hanley, while the American novelist and playwright William Hanley was his nephew. William's sister Ellen Hanley was a successful Broadway actress. Gerald Hanley died on the 7 September 1992, in Dun Leaoghaire, Ireland. 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「Gerald Hanley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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