Moore, Brian

Brian Moore was born in a Catholic, middle-class family in Belfast, an environment he has described in several of his books. His father was a doctor. Brian Moore was educated at St. Malachy's College in Belfast. During the Second World War, he served first in the Belfast Fire Brigade (1942-43) and then worked for the British Ministry of Transport in North Africa, Italy and France (1943-45). After the war, he worked for a while for the U.N. and was stationed in Poland until 1947. He then moved to Canada where he worked as a journalist on the Montreal Gazette (1948-52). In 1952 he became a full-time writer. Eventually Moore became a Canadian citizen, but he moved to the USA in 1959. Between 1974 and 1989 he was a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles. He lived in Malibu, California, since 1974.