David Caute

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David John Caute (born 16 December 1936) is a British author, journalist and historian.

Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College and St Antony's College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in 1965. From 1966 Caute held various, mostly temporary, academic positions. He was Literary Editor of the New Statesman 1979-80

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• At Fever Pitch, London: Deutsch, 1959; New York: Pantheon, 1959.
• Comrade Jacob, London: Deutsch, 1961; New York: Pantheon, 1962.
• Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914-1960, London: Deutsch, 1964; New York: Macmillan, 1964.
• The Left in Europe Since 1789, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
• The Decline of the West: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1966; New York: Macmillan, 1966.
• The Essential Writings of Karl Marx, edited, with an introduction, by Caute. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967; New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Fanon, London: Fontana, 1970; as Frantz Fanon, New York: Viking, 1970.
• The Demonstration: A Play, London: Deutsch, 1970.
• The Occupation: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
• The Illusion: An Essay on Politics, Theatre and the Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
• The Fellow-Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973; New York: Macmillan, 1973; revised edition, as The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Collisions: Essays and Reviews, London: Quartet Books, 1974.
• Cuba, Yes?, London: Secker & Warbung, 1974; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
• The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower, London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
• The Baby-Sitters, as John Salisbury. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Antheneum, 1978; republished as The Hour Before Midnight, New York: Dell, 1980.
• Moscow Gold, as John Salisbury. London: Futura, 1980.
• Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, London: Allen Lane, 1983; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1983.
• The K-Factor: A Novel, London: Joseph, 1983.
• News from Nowhere, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades, London: Hamilton, 1988; as The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
• Veronica; or, The Two Nations, London: Hamilton, 1989; New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
• The Women's Hour, London: Paladin (HarperCollins), 1991.
• Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Dr. Orwell and Mr. Blair: A Novel, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
• Fatima's Scarf, London: Totterdown Books, 1998.
• The Dancer Defects, Oxford University Press, 2003