Name Stephen Gilbert | Role Novelist | |
Died June 23, 2010, Whitehead, United Kingdom Books The Burnaby Experime, The Landslide, Monkeyface, Willard | ||
Stephen Gilbert (1912–2010) was born at Newcastle, County Down (Northern Ireland). He worked for the Northern Whig until the mid-1930s when he joined the family firm of McCausland in Belfast. In 1939 he joined the Supplementary Reserve and served with the 3rd Ulster Searchlight Regiment in France. His wartime memories, including the evacuation at Dunkirk, form the basis of Bombardier (1944).
Gilbert was a friend and protégé of Forrest Reid.
His last novel, Ratman's Notebooks (1968), was adapted into a film as Willard in 1971. The film was remade in 2003 under the same title.
Stephen Gilbert died at a nursing home at Whitehead, north of Carrickfergus, County Antrim on 23 June 2010.
Published works
In 2012 Valancourt Books began reprinting the works of Stephen Gilbert. The Landslide, Monkeyface, The Burnaby Experiments and Ratman's Notebooks are currently in print with Bombardier scheduled for 2015.