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Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was an influential British journalist and a prolific author. Best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. Subjects he explored in his travel writing include life in Naples during the Allied liberation of Italy (''Naples '44''); Vietnam and French colonial Indochina (''A Dragon Apparent''); Indonesia (''An Empire of the East''); tribal peoples of India (''A Goddess in the Stones''); Sicily and the Mafia (''The Honoured Society'' and ''In Sicily''); and the destruction caused by Christian missionaries in Latin America and elsewhere (''The Missionaries''). A newspaper article entitled "Genocide in Brazil" (1968) prompted the creation of Survival International—an organisation dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples around the world. Graham Greene considered Lewis one of the best writers of the twentieth century. ==Early life== Lewis was born in Forty Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, a suburb of London, and attended Enfield Grammar School. His parents were spiritualists and hoped young Lewis would grow up to become a medium; his father worked as a pharmacist. As a young man, Lewis tried a variety of ways to make a living in the Great Depression of the 1930s, including self-employed wedding photographer, auctioneer, umbrella wholesaler and motorcycle racer.〔 Lewis served in World War II and wrote an account of his experiences during the Allied occupation of Italy, ''Naples '44'' (1978); ''The Telegraph'' called this "one of the great first-hand accounts of the Second World War." Shortly after the war he wrote books about Burma, ''Golden Earth'' (1952), and French Indochina, ''A Dragon Apparent'' (1951), which ''The Telegraph'' similarly praised as " the finest record of Indo-China before the devastation wrought by the Vietnam War".〔 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「Norman Lewis (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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