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Gerald Kersh (26 August 1912 – 5 November 1968) was a British and later also American writer of novels and short stories. Biography. Born in 1912, Kersh began to write at the age of eight.
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Gerald Kersh was born in Teddington-on-Thames, near London, and, like so many writers, quit school to take on a series of jobs -- salesman, baker, fish-and-chips cook, nightclub bouncer, freelance newspaper reporter and at the same time was writing his first two novels.
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GERALD KERSH. Author biography: Gerald Kersh was born in Teddington-on-Thames, near London, in 1911. He left school and took on a series of jobs—salesman, baker, fish-and-chips cook, nightclub bouncer, freelance newspaper reporter—and at the same time was writing his first two novels.
Gerald Kersh has 116 books on Goodreads with 13656 ratings. Gerald Kersh’s most popular book is Night and the City.
Twice filmed, Night and the City is a seminal low-life novel, which presents a vivid glimpse of a lost London. It also marks the return of a lost London author, Gerald Kersh, a maverick character whose life was as colourful as those of his most flamboyant creations.
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