Category Archives: Patrick Leigh Fermor
“The Room Seems to Have Come into Its Own at Last”: One Afternoon in the Library of Patrick Leigh Fermor (11 June 2011).
Maggie Rainey-Smith has been kind enough to share images and memories from her 7 November 2007 visit with the late Patrick Leigh Fermor. In a recent post at “A Curious Half Hour,” Maggie has published a set of photographs and … Continue reading
“And of a Sudden All Things Moved Onward in their Course”: The Funeral Service of Patrick Leigh Fermor (16 June 2011).
Tom Sawford has been kind enough to upload the entire program for Paddy Leigh Fermor’s funeral service. The service was held on Thursday, 16 June 2011, at St. Peter’s, Dumbletown, near Paddy’s home. Tom describes the Worcestershire setting as follows: … Continue reading
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“And All the World Brought Wreaths of Laurel”: Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915 – 2011).
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE 11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011 Durrell 2012 honors the life and work of the inimitable Paddy Leigh Fermor — traveler, scholar, soldier, philhellene, and dear friend of Lawrence Durrell. Lawrence Durrell … Continue reading
“Durrell Can Evoke Place Better Than Any Writer I Know”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Lawrence Durrell (4 January 2011).
Greg Lawrence’s new book, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Macmillan 2011), details Jackie Onassis’s career working for Viking and Doubleday. Onassis’s esteem for Lawrence Durrell’s travel writing will especially interest readers here at Durrell 2012. In … Continue reading
