Derrick Leon
id:
derrick-leon-319-3606716
title:
Derrick Leon
text:
Derrick Lewis Leon (1908–1944) was a British author, who was born in London in 1908, and died of tuberculosis in November 1944, aged 36, shortly after completing the first draft of his biography of John Ruskin, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1949. Leon made his living as an interior decorator, but by the time of his death, he had earned himself a reputation as a fine biographer, with works on Leo Tolstoy and Marcel Proust. Leon had also published three novels before his death. The first
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
British writer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Leon
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-08T22:28:27Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5263052","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5263052"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14