Rupert croft cooke biography of michael jordan

  
You are looking at one of the most prolific English writers of the twentieth century. Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-79) may be a forgotten name, but his 125 books - encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, biography and non-fiction - stand testament to his remarkable life.

Born in Edenbridge, Kent, to Lucy and Hubert Bruce Cooke, Rupert was educated at Tonbridge School and Wellington College, and worked variously as a writer, journalist and reviewer, an antiquarian bookseller, a teacher and a radio broadcaster.

In defiance of his middle-class upbringing and his father's narrowminded views, he spent many years abroad - in Paris, Buenos Aires, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia and elsewhere - living cheaply and absorbing new cultures. His autobiographical travel series, The Sensual World, brims with period detail, and whilst focussing on people and places, nevertheless reveals his honesty, optimism and social consciousness.

On my bookshelves I have a copy of Rupert's 1938 work (signed