Goronwy Rees

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Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer. He was educated at the University of Oxford.

He was during the 1930s a Marxist intellectual, and in contact with the Cambridge Five spy ring through Guy Burgess. Right at the end of his life he admitted spying for the USSR for a short time, and accused MI5 man Guy Liddell also of being a spy. He also sat on the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

[edit] Works

• The Summer Flood (1932)
• Where No Wounds Were (1950)
• A Bundle of Sensations: Sketches in Autobiography (1961)
• Multimillionaires: Six Studies In Wealth (1961)
• The Rhine (1967)
• St Michael: A History of Marks & Spencer (1969)
• The Great Slump: Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1933 (1970)
• Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch (1970) translator
• A Chapter of Accidents (1972)
• Brief Encounters (1974)

[edit] References

• Jenny Rees (1994) Looking for Mr. Nobody. The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees

[edit] External links

• Page at Spartacus