Arthur Calder-Marshall


Arthur Calder-Marshall was an English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist, and biographer.

Life and career

Calder-Marshall was born in El Misti, Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey, the son of Alice and Arthur Grotjan Marshall, a civil engineer. The elder Arthur was grandson of the sculptor William Calder Marshall. William Calder Marshall's father William Marshall, D.L., a goldsmith and jeweller, had married Annie, daughter of merchant William Calder, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1810-11, by his wife Agnes, a daughter of landed gentleman Hugh Dalrymple. The Marshall family were Episcopalian goldsmiths from Perthshire; the Calder family were merchants.
A short, unhappy stint teaching English at Denstone College, Staffordshire, 1931–33, inspired his novel Dead Centre. In the 1930s, Calder-Marshall adopted strong left-wing views. He joined
the Communist Party of Great Britain and was also a member of the London-based left-wing Writers and Readers Group which also
included Randall Swingler, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mulk Raj Anand, Maurice Richardson and
Rose Macaulay.
In 1937, Calder-Marshall wrote scripts for MGM although none appears to have been filmed.
Calder-Marshall's fiction and non-fiction covered a wide range of subjects. He himself remarked, "I have never written two books on the same subject or with the same object."
In the 1960s, Calder-Marshall took on commissioned work which included a novelisation of the Dirk Bogarde film Victim. He has additionally been proposed as the author of The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ a children's novel about British spy James Bond's nephew, published under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott.
With his wife, documentary screenplay-writer Ara, he was the father of the actress Anna Calder-Marshall and the grandfather of the actor Tom Burke.

Media adaptations

adapted The Way to Santiago in 1941 for RKO. However Welles's troubles with the studio saw to it that no film got made.
James Mason purchased the film rights to Occasion of Glory, intending to make this project his directorial debut. Mason hired Christopher Isherwood to write the script.

Biography

"The Enthusiast; An Enquiry into the Life Beliefs and Character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne alias Fr. Ignatius,O.S.B., Abbot of Elm Hill, Norwich and Llanthony Wales"

Adult fiction

Novels:
Short fiction:
Play:
As William Drummond:
Memoirs
Travel
Miscellany
Calder-Marshall edited and wrote the introduction to: