George Slocombe

George Edward Slocombe (March 8, 1894-December 19, 1963) was a British journalist and novelist.

Biography

Slocombe was born in Bristol. He started work as a journalist for the Daily Herald in 1912 and became the paper's Chief Foreign Correspondent in 1919. He was recruited to work at the paper by Rowland Kenney, starting his career as Kenney's secretary. Slocombe interviewed Benito Mussolini at the Cannes Conference in 1922. Slocombe later wrote a fictionalized depiction of Mussolini in his novel, Romance of a Dictator.

In Paris, Slocombe worked for William Ewer at the Federated Press of America. In this position, Slocombe sent Ewer confidential copies of French reports sent to the French Foreign Office. Ewer paid him $1000 a month for supplying the documents. Slocombe was never prosecuted by the British government for these activities and he returned to England in 1940.

Personal life

In 1921, while living in Paris, he had an affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay. Slocombe was the father of cinematographer Douglas Slocombe.

Bibliography

References

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  10. ↑ Epstein, Daniel Mark (2002). What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Henry Holt and Company. p. 159. ISBN 9780805071818.
  11. ↑ Ellis, David A. (2012). Conversations with Cinematographers. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 13. ISBN 9780810881266.