John Harris (18 October 1916 – 7 March 1991) was a British novelist. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books. He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonyms of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. His 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954. He was the father of Juliet Harris, who published more Inspector Pel books under the name of Juliet Hebden.
British novelist
John Harris self-caricature from the late 1970s
Biography
Harris was the son of Mr & Mrs E. J. Harris, of the Stag Inn, Herringthorpe.[1] A product of Rotherham Grammar School, he worked for the Rotherham Advertiser[2] from late 1932 or early 1933 as a reporter, later moving to the Sheffield Telegraph. Shortly before the Second World War, he and colleague Harold Evans briefly freelanced in Cornwall.
Harris later served in the Royal Air Force as a corporal attached to the South African Air Force. After the war he rejoined the Sheffield Telegraph as a political and comedy cartoonist (his creations included the Calamity Kids and Amateur Archie), and stayed until the mid-1950s when, following the outstanding success of his 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them—later, in 1954, made into a film of the same name—he became a full-time author. From 1955 he lived at West Wittering, near Chichester, West Sussex. His first published novel was The Lonely Voyage (1951), and he went on to write more than 80 works of fiction and non-fiction, including Covenant With Death (1961). He also wrote as Max Hennessy and Mark Hebden. As Hebden he published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel.
He married Betty Wragg,[2] daughter of Mr & Mrs H Wragg, of Tenter Street, Rotherham, at St Michael & All Angels Church, Northfield, Rotherham, on 31 January 1947. They had a son, Max (b 1949), who later moved to the USA; and a daughter, Juliet (b 1954), who later moved to France. Juliet continued the Pel detective series created by her father.
Bibliography
As John Harris
The Lonely Voyage (1951)
Hallelujah Corner (1952)
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1953), US Title: The Undaunted
The Claws of Mercy (1955)
Getaway (1956), US Title: Close to the Wind
The Sleeping Mountain (1958)
Road to the Coast (1959), US Title: Adventure's End
Sunset at Sheba (1960)
Covenant with Death (1961)
The Spring of Malice (1962)
The Unforgiving Wind (1963)
Vardy (1964)
The Cross of Lazzaro (1965)
The Old Trade of Killing (1966)
Light Cavalry Action (1967)
Right of Reply (1968)
A Kind of Courage (1972)
Smiling Willie and the Tiger (1974)
Ride Out the Storm (1975)
Take or Destroy (1976)
Army of Shadows (1977)
The Fox from His Lair (1978)
Cotton's War (1979)
Swordpoint (1980)
North Strike (1981)
Harkaway's Sixth Column (1983)
A Funny Place to Hold a War (1984)
Up for Grabs (1985)
The Thirty Days' War (1986)
China Seas (1987)
Picture of Defeat (1988)
So Far from God (1989)
- The Martin Falconer Series (for junior readers)
The Fledglings (1971)
The Professionals (1973)
The Victors (1975)
The Interceptors (1977)
The Revolutionaries (1978)
- The Ira Penaluna Series (in chronological order)
The Mustering of the Hawks (1972)
The Mercenaries (1969), US Title: The Jade Wind
The Courtney Entry (1971)
As Mark Hebden
What Changed Charley Farthing (1965)
The Eyewitness (1966)
The Errant Knights (1968)
Portrait in a Dusty Frame (1969), US Title: Grave Journey
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