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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.
Jul 15, 2024 · 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.
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.
A.J. Cronin has 280 books on Goodreads with 62611 ratings. A.J. Cronin’s most popular book is The Citadel.
Archibald Joseph Cronin (KROH-nuhn), the Scottish physician who became for several decades one of the most popular writers in the English-speaking world, gave up a profitable London practice in...
The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious subject of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.
Before long, critics hailed A. J. Cronin as a new and important author whose writing was comparable in content and style to that of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Honoré de Balzac.
Archibald Joseph Cronin, 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.
Apr 15, 2015 · The Citadel. : AJ Cronin. Rosetta Books, Apr 15, 2015 - Fiction - 276 pages. A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner: “ [A] fine, honest, and moving a study of a...
Scottish novelist and physician A.J. Cronin combined realism with social criticism and won a large Anglo-American readership. Cronin’s strengths were his narrative skill and his powers of acute observation and graphic description.
