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English novelist, poet, critic and editor. His novels include The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade’s End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). In 1908, Ford founded The English Review in which he published works by Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, May Sinclair, John Galsworthy and William Butler Yeats; and debuted works of Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. In 1924, he founded The Transatlantic Review.
Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer; used the name Ford Madox Hueffer, but changed it to Ford Madox Ford in 1919.
Born: 17 December 1873 in Wimbledon
Died: 26 June 1939
Gender: Male