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Gabriel Fielding (Alan Gabriel Barnsley) was born on 25 March, 1916 in Hexham, England, is an English writer. Discover Gabriel Fielding'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 70 years old?

Popular As Alan Gabriel Barnsley
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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March, 1916
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Hexham, England
Date of death 27 November, 1986
Died Place Bellevue, Washington, US
Nationality Guinea

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1875

Alan Gabriel Barnsley was born at Hexham, Northumberland, fifth of the six children of Anglican clergyman Rev. George Barnsley (1875–1956) and playwright and whippet-breeder Katherine Mary (née Fielding-Smith), a relative of the novelist Henry Fielding; her father, Rev. Henry Fielding-Smith, descended from Henry Fielding's brother.

Barnsley derived his pen name from his illustrious relative.

1916

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.

1925

From 1925-29, his secondary education started at now defunct Grange School in Eastbourne.

1929

From 1929-1931, he attended St Edwards School, Oxford.

1933

In 1933, he attended Faircourt Academy, Eastbourne.

1934

In 1934, he attended Llangefni County School, Anglesey, Wales.

1939

He wrote and presented a satirical paper on the Irish medical establishment that year, winning him the University Philosophical Society Silver Medal for Oratory in 1939.

This paper angered the establishment and made it virtually impossible for him to finish his studies and medical residency in Ireland.

The incident is immortalized in his coming-of-age novel Through Streets Broad and Narrow.

1940

He earned a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1940, with prizes in Anatomy and Biology.

1942

Fielding graduated M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. from St. George's Hospital, London in 1942.

He was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War II.

1943

In 1943, he married Edwina Eleanora Cook.

They had five children: Jonathan, Mario Simon, Felicity, Mary Gabriel, and Fractal mathematician Michael Barnsley.

1952

His medical practice included general practice in Maidstone, Kent and part-time practice at Her Majesty's Prison, Maidstone, from 1952 to 1964.

Fielding once said, "Medicine, to me, was a sentence I had to fulfill in order to be free to write...."

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.

1954

He also served as part-time prison doctor at HM Prison Maidstone He and his wife Edwina became Roman Catholic converts in 1954 under the influence of Father Malacy Lynch, Prior of Aylesford Priory.

1962

he was awarded the W.H. Smith Award for The Birthday King, and for "the most outstanding contribution to English Literature over a two-year period" (1962–1963).

1963

In 1963

1964

In 1964 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the St. Thomas More Association for The Birthday King.

this recognition encouraged him to keep writing while still practicing medicine.

1966

In 1966 he moved to the United States, where he was author-in-residence at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

1967

In 1967 the degree of Doctor of Literature was conferred on him by Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

1972

Later he was awarded the Washington State Governor's Writer Award 1972 and Distinguished Professor Washington State University 1981.

He published eight novels, three books of poetry, and numerous short stories.

Three of the novels chronicle the life and unsuccessful love affairs of the same protagonist, John Blaydon (In the Time of Greenbloom, Through Streets Broad and Narrow and Brotherly Love), "in a series of brilliant word pictures, evocative, authentic, macabre or hilariously funny."

1981

He also became a full professor of English literature there, retiring in 1981 as professor emeritus.

1986

Gabriel Fielding died in Bellevue, Washington on 27 November 1986.