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John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s. ==Biography== John Braine was born in Bingley, near Bradford, Yorkshire. He left St. Bede's Grammar School at 16 and worked in a shop, a laboratory and a factory before becoming, after the war, a librarian. Although he wrote 12 works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, ''Room at the Top'' (1957). He stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that ''Room at the Top'' was based on ''Bel Ami'', but that 'the critics didn't pick it up'. There was possibly more to ''pick up''. The plural of ''Ami'' is ''Amis'', a possible reference to Braine's friend and literary contemporary Kingsley Amis, who had become famous three years before Braine with the publication of his novel ''Lucky Jim'' in 1954. ''Room at the Top'' was turned into a successful 1959 film, with Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton and featuring an Oscar–winning performance by Simone Signoret. In September 2012, BBC television broadcast a two-part dramatisation that had been delayed because of a dispute over copyright. Matthew McNulty was in the lead role After achieving literary success, Braine moved to the south of England, living for a time in Woking. He wrote several more novels, including ''Life at the Top'', a sequel to ''Room at the Top''. His 1968 novel ''The Crying Game'' is set in London and captures some of the atmosphere of the 'Swinging Sixties'. (It is not related to the 1992 film of the same name). His 1974 book ''Writing a Novel'' was a guide for aspiring novelists. Braine was mildly left-wing in his youth, but like his contemporaries (and fellow "Angry Young Men") Amis and John Wain, he later moved to the political right, and supported America's involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1967, Braine, Robert Conquest, Amis and several others signed a controversial letter to ''The Times'' titled "Backing for U.S. Policies in Vietnam", supporting the US government in Vietnam.〔John Wakeman, ''World Authors 1950-1970 : a companion volume to Twentieth Century Authors''. New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 1975. ISBN 0824204190. (pp. 444-48).〕 Braine was married to Helen Wood and had four children. He died in 1986 at age 64. 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「John Braine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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