J.F. Hendry

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J.F. Hendry


Born
in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland
September 12, 1912

Died
December 17, 1986

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Influences


J.F. Hendry was a Scottish writer. He is best known for his novel about growing up in the West of Scotland, Fernie Brae (1947), and as the pioneering editor, along with Henry Treece, of the three anthologies, The New Apocalypse, White Horsemen and Crown and Sickle, and as the author of two volumes of verse, The Bombed Happiness and Orchestral Mountain, and of the epic poem Marimarusa.

He was educated at Whitehill School in Dennistoun and was a student of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow although he did not graduate. He served in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War and when the war was over he left Scotland to travel through Europe, Africa and North America as a translator with the United Nations. He was for many y
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The Penguin Book of Scottis...

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The Sacred Threshold: A Lif...

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Growing Up in the West: Poo...

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Modern Scottish Poetry: An ...

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Fernie Brae: A Scottish Chi...

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Scottish Short Stories

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The Bombed Happiness

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World Alien

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Marimarusa

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The Orchestral Mountain: A ...

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“We must recover a sense of nationhood,' said Maclean, 'Like Ireland.'
'I think we must first recover a sense of identity,' said David. 'Until we know who we are, there's little use in finding out what we are.”
J.F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood

“Like the great bell in the tower, its clapper silenced, the University hung suspended over the city, a shell.”
J.F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood