Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad 's publishing career spans a little over the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges him to be one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political novelist—in English,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
a language which he had learned as a non-native speaker. Female characters in his work are a generally peripheral minority.

Milestones

3 December 1857

Novelist JC was born in Berdyczew, in Russian-occupied Poland (now in Ukraine) an only child.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

29 April 1895

JC published his first novel, Almayer's Folly, about a Dutch trading post in Malaysia.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
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February-April 1899

JC 's landmark novella The Heart of Darkness was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
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3 August 1924

British novelist JC died of a heart attack at his home in Bishopsbourne, Kent.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth in Vanished Poland

3 December 1857

Novelist JC was born in Berdyczew, in Russian-occupied Poland (now in Ukraine) an only child.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.