Brian Moore

Brian Moore (August 25, 1921 - January 11, 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who immigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He has been praised for his novel depicts of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, especially his explorations of the division between communes in The Troubles, and is credited described as “one of the few true masters of contemporary fiction.” He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the first Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote the screenplay and some of his books were made into films.