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Colin MacInnes was born on 20 August, 1914 in London, England, is a British writer (1914–1976). Discover Colin MacInnes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, journalist
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August, 1914
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace London, England
Date of death 22 April, 1976
Died Place Kent, England
Nationality London, England

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1914

Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976) was an English novelist and journalist.

MacInnes was born in London, the son of singer James Campbell McInnes and novelist Angela Mackail, who was the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and also related to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin.

MacInnes's parents divorced and his mother remarried.

1920

The family relocated to Australia in 1920, MacInnes returning in 1931.

For much of his childhood, he was known as Colin Thirkell, the surname of his mother's second husband; later he used his father's name McInnes, afterwards changing it to MacInnes.

1930

He worked in Brussels from 1930 until 1935, then studied painting in London at the London Polytechnic school and the School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road.

Towards the end of his life, he stayed at the home of Martin Green, his publisher, and Green's wife Fiona, in Fitzrovia, where MacInnes spent time, regarding their small family as his own adoptive one until his death.

MacInnes served in the British Intelligence Corps during the Second World War, and worked in occupied Germany after the European armistice.

These experiences resulted in the writing of his first novel, To the Victors the Spoils.

Soon after his return to England, he worked for BBC Radio until he could earn a living from his writing.

1950

He was the author of a number of books depicting London youth and black immigrant culture during the 1950s, in particular City of Spades (1957), Absolute Beginners (1959) and Mr Love & Justice (1960), known collectively as the "London trilogy".

Mr Love & Justice concerns two characters, Frank Love and Edward Justice, during late 1950s London.

Mr Love is a novice ponce (pimp); Mr Justice is a police officer newly transferred to the plain-clothes division of the Vice Squad.

Gradually their lives intermesh.

1958

Many of his books were set in the Notting Hill area of London, then a poor and racially mixed area, home to many new immigrants and which suffered a race riot during 1958.

Openly bisexual, he wrote on subjects including urban squalor, racial issues, bisexuality, drugs, anarchy, and "decadence".

1981

The Jam released a single called "Absolute Beginners" in 1981.

1986

Absolute Beginners was filmed in 1986 by director Julien Temple.

2001

City of Spades was adapted by Biyi Bandele as a radio play, directed by Toby Swift, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April 2001.

2002

Billy Bragg's albums England, Half English (2002) and Mr. Love & Justice (2008) borrowed their titles from books by MacInnes.

2005

MacInnes occurs as a character in Tainted Love (2005), Stewart Home's novel of 1960s and 1970s counterculture.

2007

In 2007 a stage adaptation by Roy Williams was performed at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London.

David Bowie appeared in the film Absolute Beginners and recorded the title song, which was a hit in England.