NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for
Rebecca West

Rebecca WestAKA Cicily Isabel Fairfield

Born: 21-Dec-1892
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 15-Mar-1983
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Reporter on the Nuremburg Trials

Father: (d. 1902)
Boyfriend: H. G. Wells (author, dated 1913-23, one son)
Son: Anthony West (b. 1914)
Boyfriend: Charlie Chaplin (actor)
Boyfriend: Lord Beaverbrook (newspaper publisher)
Husband: Henry Maxwell Andrews (banker, m. 1930, d. 1968)

    Dame of the British Empire 1959
    Irish Ancestry Paternal
    Scottish Ancestry Maternal

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Reds (3-Dec-1981) Herself

Author of books:
Henry James (1916, biography)
The Return of the Soldier (1918, novel)
The Judge (1922, novel)
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928, essays)
Harriet Hume (1929, novel)
St. Augustine (1933, biography)
The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935, short stories)
The Thinking Reed (1936, novel)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1942, travelogue, 2 vols.)
The Meaning of Treason (1949)
A Train of Powder (1955)
The Fountain Overflows (1957, novel)
The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurring Theme (1958)
The New Meaning of Treason (1964)
The Birds Fall Down (1966, novel)
This Real Night (1984, novel)
Cousin Rosamund (1985, novel)



Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications