![]() ![]() This story of Harry Fabian, a petty gangster and pimp on the make, displays Kersh's extensive knowledge of the London underworld. ![]() ![]() He had more luck with Night and the City which was published in 1938 and has been filmed twice, most notably with Richard Widmark in 1950 and then in 1992 with Robert De Niro in the lead role (this version transposed the setting from London to New York). He finally managed to get his first novel Jews Without Jehovah published in 1934 but in this autobiographical tale of growing up poor and Jewish he had not sufficiently concealed the identities of some of the characters and a member of his family sued for libel: as a result the book was quickly withdrawn. After leaving school he worked as, amongst other things, a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish & chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in-wrestler whilst attempting to 'make it' as a writer. Born in 1911, he began to write at the age of 8. Gerald Kersh (1911–1968) was a British writer. ![]()
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