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John Sommerfield (Jack Hugo Sommerfeld) was born on 25 June, 1908 in London, is a British writer and left-wing activist (1908–1991). Discover John Sommerfield'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 83 years old?

Popular As Jack Hugo Sommerfeld
Occupation Writer, communist, veteran of spanish civil war
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 25 June, 1908
Birthday 25 June
Birthplace London
Date of death 1991
Died Place Oxfordshire
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1908

John Sommerfield (25 June 1908 – 13 August 1991) was a British writer and left-wing activist known for his influential novel May Day, which fictionalised a Communist upheaval in 1930s London.

Sommerfield volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War and wrote one of the first combatant accounts of that conflict.

He later served in the Royal Air Force in World War II.

Born Jack Hugo Sommerfield in West London, Sommerfield left University College School at the age of 16 and worked as a newspaper delivery boy, stage hand and merchant seaman before moving to the Chelsea area, where he was active in the Communist party.

1930

He appears to have joined the Communist Party in the early 1930s and it was a major part of his life for the following quarter-of-a-century.

He wrote columns for several Communist periodicals, including the Daily Worker, and was active in the Communist Party Writers' Group.

Sommerfield's first two books, They Die Young (1930) – which was published in the United States as The Death of Christopher – and Behind the Scenes (1934) drew upon his experiences at sea and as a stage hand.

1936

1936 saw the publication of May Day, which is considered Sommerfield's most important work.

The novel was published by the Communist Party's publishing house, and describes a few days in the lives of protagonist James Seton and various other people around London leading up to a general strike and a political breakthrough for Communism in Britain.

Shortly after the publication of May Day, Sommerfield volunteered for the International Brigades, fighting in the Spanish Civil War alongside his friend John Cornford.

After returning he discovered that he had been reported dead.

During World War II he served as an aircraft support mechanic in Burma and India.

The book was dedicated to Cornford, who was killed in Spain in December 1936.

Malcolm Lowry, a close friend of Sommerfield's, counted him as an important influence, and dedicated his poem Song About Madrid, Useful Any Time to him and Julian Bell.

1937

In 1937 Sommerfield published Volunteer in Spain, which was an account of his time in Spain.

George Orwell called the memoir a "piece of sentimental tripe", while others praised it and called Sommerfield "an excellent writer".

1939

Perhaps the most widely read of Sommerfield's works was Trouble in Porter Street, published in 1939.

The Communist Party asked Sommerfield to write a manual about how to organise a rent strike.

He wrote a short story for this purpose instead which was published cheaply as a pamphlet and sold in tens of thousands.

Sommerfield was also active in the Mass Observation project and took the lead in the research, largely in Bolton, for The Pub and the People.

Throughout the war and in the following decade, Sommerfield continued to write for Communist and progressive periodicals and literary journals, including John Lehmann's New Writing journal and was involved with Mass Observation.

He worked largely in documentary films.

1947

This wartime service in Asia with the RAF provided the inspiration for some of his best short stories, collected after the war as The Survivors (1947).

1952

Among his writing, The Adversaries (1952) was a historical novel based on the life of the mathematician Evariste Galois, while North West Five (1960) was a novel about a young working class couple struggling to make their own way in post-war Kentish Town in north London.

Sommerfield married twice and had a son, Peter, by his first wife.

1991

After the war, he lived with his second wife, the artist and illustrator Molly Moss, in Hampstead and Gospel Oak in north London before moving to Oxfordshire where he died in 1991.