John David Caute is a British

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 author

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, novelist, playwright

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, historian

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 and journalist

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Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy

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, Wellington

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, Wadham College, Oxford

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 and St Antony's College, Oxford

St Antony's College, Oxford

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. A Henry Fellow at Harvard, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

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 in 1959, but resigned in 1965. From 1966 to 1985 Caute held various academic positions, including Reader at Brunel University

Brunel University

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, and Visiting Professor at NYU. Columbia

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, UC Irvine, and Bristol University. He was Literary Editor of the New Statesman

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1979-80, and Co-Chairman of the Writers' Guild of GB, 1982. His novel Comrade Jacob (1961) was adapted as the film Winstanley

Winstanley (film)

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(1975). He has been a JP and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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Works

• At Fever Pitch, London: Deutsch, 1959; New York: Pantheon, 1959. - winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award
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   and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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• Comrade Jacob, London: Deutsch, 1961; New York: Pantheon, 1962.
• Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914-1960, London: Deutsch, 1964; New York: Macmillan, 1964.
• The Left in Europe Since 1789, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
• The Decline of the West: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1966; New York: Macmillan, 1966.
• The Essential Writings of Karl Marx, edited, with an introduction, by Caute. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967; New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Fanon, London: Fontana Modern Masters
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  , 1970; as Frantz Fanon, New York: Viking, 1970.
• The Demonstration: A Play, London: Deutsch, 1970. Performed at the Nottingham Playhouse, 1969, Unity Theatre, 1970, and Junges Theater, Hamburg, 1971
• The Occupation: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
• The Illusion: An Essay on Politics, Theatre and the Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
• The Fellow-Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973; New York: Macmillan, 1973; revised edition, as The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Collisions: Essays and Reviews, London: Quartet Books, 1974.
• Cuba, Yes?, London: Secker & Warbung, 1974; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
• The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower, London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
• The Baby-Sitters, as John Salisbury. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Antheneum, 1978; republished as The Hour Before Midnight, New York: Dell, 1980.
• Moscow Gold, as John Salisbury. London: Futura, 1980.
• Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, London: Allen Lane, 1983; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1983.
• The K-Factor: A Novel, London: Joseph, 1983.
• The Zimbabwe Tapes, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1983
• News from Nowhere, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• Henry and the Dogs, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1986
• Sanctions, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1988
• Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades, London: Hamilton, 1988; as The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
• Veronica; or, The Two Nations, London: Hamilton, 1989; New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
• The Women's Hour, London: Paladin (HarperCollins), 1991.
• Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Dr. Orwell and Mr. Blair: A Novel, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
• Animal Fun Park, a radio drama, BBC Radio, 1995
• Fatima's Scarf, London: Totterdown Books, 1998.
• The Dancer Defects, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Marechera and the Colonel, London: Totterdown Books, 2009.
• Politics and the Novel During the Cold War, Piscataway: New Jersey: Transaction, 2010.