Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987)) was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was awarded a CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List in 1982.
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“Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.”
—Gerald Brenan (1894–1987)