Ford, Ford Madox, originally Ford Hermann Hueffer 1873-1939
English novelist, editor and poet

He was born in Merton, Surrey, the son of Francis Hueffer, the music critic of The Times, and grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. Brought up in Pre-Raphaelite circles, he published his first book when he was only 18, a fairy story entitled The Brown Owl (1891), and a novel, The Shifting of the Fire, appeared the following year. In 1894 he eloped with and married Elsie Martindale, presaging a life of emotional upheaval. He met Joseph Conrad in 1898 and they co-authored various works including The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). In 1908 he founded the English Review, which he edited for 15 months and in which he published Thomas Hardy, H G Wells, D H Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis among others. In 1924, while living in Paris, he was founder-editor of the Transatlantic Review, which gave space to James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and the young Ernest Hemingway. He wrote almost 80 books in a hectic career but is best remembered for three novels: The Fifth Queen (1906), The Good Soldier (1915) and Parade's End, the title he gave to what is often known as the 'Tietjens war' tetralogy: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928).

Bibliography: A Mizener, The Saddest Story (1972)