Fielding, Gabriel, 1916-1986

found: New York Times, 1-3-87(Alan Gabriel Barnsley, physician and professor who wrote novels and poetry under the pseudonym Gabriel Fielding, d. 11-27-86)

found: OCLC, July 18, 2007(hdg: Fielding, Gabriel, 1916- ; usages: Gabriel Fielding, G. Fielding)

found: Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (website), viewed Sept. 1, 2021:Guide to the Alan Gabriel Barnsley Papers 1962-1964, Cage 5096 (Biography/History: Alan Gabriel Barnsley (1916-1986) was a physician and author who wrote under the pseudonym Gabriel Fielding. He was born in England in Hexham, Northumberland. He attended Trinity College at the University of Dublin (B.A., 1940), and studied medicine at St. George's Hospital in London. He wrote several novels including the one discussed in the letters in this collection, The Birthday King (1962). He served on the faculty of the Washington State University English Department beginning in 1966, attaining the rank of Professor. He retired from WSU in 1981.) - http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg5096.htm

found: Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 1, 2021:Gabriel Fielding (Alan Gabriel Barnsley (pen name Gabriel Fielding, 25 March 1916 - 27 November 1986) was an English novelist whose works include: In the Time of Greenbloom, The Birthday King, Through Streets Broad and Narrow and The Women of Guinea Lane. He earned a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1939, with prizes in Anatomy and Biology. Fielding graduated M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. from St. George's Hospital, London in 1943. He was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War II. His medical practice included general practice in Maidstone, Kent and part-time practice at Her Majesty's Prison, Maidstone, from 1952 to 1964. His first book, The Frog Prince and Other Poems, was published in 1952 in England. He established a bustling medical practice in Maidstone, Kent following World War II, later enlisting two partners to join him. He also served as part-time prison doctor at HM Prison Maidstone In 1966 he moved to the United States, where he was author-in-residence at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He also became a full professor of English literature there, retiring in 1981 as professor emeritus. In 1967 the degree of Doctor of Literature was conferred on him by Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. Later he was awarded the Washington State Governor's Writer Award 1972 and Distinguished Professor Washington State University 1981.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Fielding

found: Notes (website), viewed Sept. 1, 2021:Alan Gabriel Barnsley (Gabriel Fielding was the fifth child of George Barnsley, a parson of the Church of England; his mother, a descendant of the eighteenth century British novelist Henry Fielding, was an unpublished writer and a successful dog breeder. At the age of eight he was sent away to school in the south of England; from there he went on to public school at St. Edward's School, Oxford, and then to medical school at Trinity College in Dublin, where he graduated in 1939. He completed his medical studies at St. George's Hospital, London. After World War II he set up practice in Maidstone, Kent, where he included in his medical duties attending to the inmates at Maidstone Prison. When his literary career began in the 1950's he slowly cut back on his medical practice and took up his pen name, for which he combined his own middle name with his mother's maiden name.) - https://www.enotes.com/topics/alan-gabriel-barnsley