Joseph Bard also known as Diamant József, was an expatriate Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 writer, known for a novel Shipwreck in Europe (1928) and short stories

Short Stories

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 written in English, and as a literary editor. He settled in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, where he was later known as Joseph Bard. His background was Jewish and Croat.

He was married to Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt...

 from 1922 to 1927; and later married Eileen Agar

Eileen Agar

Eileen Forrester Agar was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.-Biography:...

 in 1940.

He was a friend and supporter of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

, with whom he corresponded when Pound was confined to hospital.