Eminent Nonentities


Eminent Nonentities, published in 1971, is a collection of short stories by the English author and journalist Alaric Jacob.

Background

Jacob was a Reuters journalist in England and America and a war correspondent during World War II. He wrote several novels and recounted his experiences during the war and in Moscow afterwards. He explains the work by stating that having written about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Margot Asquith, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Henry Wallace, Wavell, Montgomery, Petain and all the rest, he has "had his fill" of them. He says that the people that interest him are the unknown characters he encountered while roving about. These characters form the basis of the eclectic collection of short stories.

Stories

The illustrations for the stories in the original edition are by Philippe Jullian.