Stephen Gilbert (novelist)

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 protege of Forrest Reid.

His last novel, Ratman's Notebooks (1968), was filmed as Willard (1971 film).

Stephen Gilbert died at a nursing home at Whitehead, north of Carrickfergus, County Antrim on 23 June 2010.^[1], ^[2], ^[3]

Published works

The landslide (1943)
Bombardier (1944)
Monkeyface (1948)
The Burnaby experiments (1952)
Ratman's Notebooks (1968)

References

^ 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.

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Stephen Gilbert (novelist)

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