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J.R. Ackerley

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in The United Kingdom

November 04, 1896

Died

June 04, 1967

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Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades.

He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was openly gay, a rarity in his time when homosexuality was forbidden by law and socially ostracized. ...more

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Average rating: 3.49 · 4,205 ratings · 690 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Introduction) 3.29 avg rating — 2,257 ratings — published 1956 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley, W.H. Auden (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 1968 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Think the World of You by J.R. Ackerley, P.N. Furbank (Introduction) 3.61 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1960 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley, Eliot Weinberger (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 1932 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The letters of J.R. Ackerley by J.R. Ackerley, Neville Braybrooke (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prisoners of War: A Play in Three Acts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1925 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	E.M. Forster: A Portrait 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moja Tulipanka 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1965	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Micheldever & Other Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.”
― J. R. Ackerley

tags: care, dog, doglovers, humanity, kindness, love, peace, selflessness

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“[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!”
― J.R. Ackerley

tags: criticism

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“I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.”
― J.R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip

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2013 Empire Challenge: Non-Fiction - Biography/Memoir/Letters

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

8 votes, 21.1%

On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham

5 votes, 13.2%

The Flame Trees Of Thika by Elspeth Huxley

5 votes, 13.2%

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne

5 votes, 13.2%

Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament by Lucy Moore

3 votes, 7.9%

Lilla's Feast by Frances Osbourne

3 votes, 7.9%

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell

2 votes, 5.3%

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

2 votes, 5.3%

Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

1 vote, 2.6%

The Temptress: The Scandalous Life Of Alice, Countess De Janzé by Paul Spicer

1 vote, 2.6%

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

1 vote, 2.6%

Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley

1 vote, 2.6%

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe

1 vote, 2.6%

On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley

0 votes, 0.0%

The Gentleman In The Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham

0 votes, 0.0%

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert A. Bickers

0 votes, 0.0%

The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley

0 votes, 0.0%

The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories by Beryl Markham

0 votes, 0.0%

Shadows On The Grass by Karen Blixen

0 votes, 0.0%

Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife: In Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan by Margaret D. Williamson

0 votes, 0.0%

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