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Stephen Gilbert (1912–2010) was born at Newcastle, County Down (Northern Ireland). He worked for the ''Northern Whig'' until the mid-1930s when he joined the family firm of McCausland in Belfast. In 1939 he joined the Supplementary Reserve and served with the 3rd Ulster Searchlight Regiment in France. His wartime memories, including the evacuation at Dunkirk, form the basis of ''Bombardier'' (1944). Gilbert was a friend and protégé of Forrest Reid. His last novel, ''Ratman's Notebooks'' (1968), was adapted to filmed as ''Willard''. Stephen Gilbert died at a nursing home at Whitehead, north of Carrickfergus, County Antrim on 23 June 2010.,〔(Brown, Kristian ''An exhibition on Forrest Reid and Stephen Gilbert'', Queen's University Belfast, 2008. )〕〔(Craig, Patricia ''Stephen Gilbert: Writer who was lauded by Forster but is best known for a lurid novel about rats'', The Independent, 02/07/2010. )〕〔(Kennedy, Diarmuid ''Rats!'', Verbal Magazine Issue 14, pp. 6-7. )〕 == Published works == *''The Landslide'' (1943) *''Bombardier'' (1944) *''Monkeyface'' (1948) *''The Burnaby Experiments'' (1952) *''Ratman's Notebooks'' (1968) In 2012 Valancourt Books began reprinting the works of Stephen Gilbert. ''The Landslide'', ''Monkeyface'', ''The Burnaby Experiments'' and ''Ratman's Notebooks'' are currently in print with ''Bombardier'' scheduled for 2015.〔(Stephen Gilbert biography and Valancourt editions )〕 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「Stephen Gilbert (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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