George Webb
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Biographer, non-fiction
Notable Works
- Kipling's Japan (1988) Bloomsbury, (reprinted 2012)
About
George Webb was the Editor of the Kipling Journal who wrote frequently on Rudyard Kipling’s life and work. In collaboration with Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Webb collected the writings of Rudyard Kipling in Japan into the volume, Kipling’s Japan. It was described on publication thus: ‘”No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in (Japan) or wrote so fully about it. Kipling’s newspaper dispatches from Japan were described by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as ‘the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter’. These vivid pen-pictures, together with Kipling’s other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully edited with an introduction and Notes.”
Legacy
His gift of Royalties to the RLF from his literary estate helps support future generations of writers.
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