Ford Madox Ford

Born in Surrey in 1873, Ford Madox Ford grew up in an unusually artistic world. He was born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of the music critic Francis Hueffer and the grandson of painter Ford Madox Brown, and he published his first novel while still very young.

Ford became an important literary force not only through his own writing but also through his editorial work. Sources describe him as a novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review played a significant role in the rise of early 20th-century English and American literature.

Today he is especially remembered for The Good Soldier and the Parade's End sequence. His work is closely linked with literary modernism, and his experience serving in World War I helped inform the later fiction that made his reputation endure.