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Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors.
A.J. Cronin was a Scottish author of nonfiction, literature and fiction novels. He is famously known for his novel The Citadel published in 1937. The book tells a story of a doctor of welsh origins who quickly climbs the ladder of success in London.
Jul 19, 1998 · A.J. Cronin (born July 19, 1896, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scot.—died Jan. 6, 1981, Montreux, Switz.) was a Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social criticism won a large Anglo-American readership.
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Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
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A.J. Cronin has 279 books on Goodreads with 62294 ratings. A.J. Cronin’s most popular book is The Citadel.
Learn about the life and works of A. J. Cronin, a Scottish physician and best-selling novelist who wrote The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Dr. Finlay's Casebook. Find out how he combined social criticism, realism, and romance in his fiction.
Jan 3, 2021 · IT was 40 years ago this week that one of Scotland’s most famous writers, AJ Cronin, passed away in a nursing home in Glion near Montreux in Switzerland at the age of 84. For one short period Archibald Joseph Cronin was the highest-earning novelist in the world, outselling even Agatha Christie, and he is credited with encouraging the ...
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