![]() ![]() His first short story, "El Quixote del cine' was published in The London Mercury in September 1929 under the pseudonym of David Hilcot. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington on 4 October 1988, aged 87. He married twice, secondly in 1942 to Ilona Zsoldos-Gutman, by whom he had a son and two daughters.Īfter the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. ![]() He served in British Intelligence during World War II in Romania, Greece and the Middle East. From 1933 to 1939 he was a traveling salesman for John Kidd, a manufacturer of printing ink, in Europe, the Middle East and South America. In 1929 Household moved to the United States where he wrote for children's encyclopedias and composed children's radio plays for the Columbia Broadcasting System. ![]() In 1926 he went to Spain, where he worked selling bananas as a marketing manager for the United Fruit Company (Elders and Fyffes). ![]() He became an assistant confidential secretary for Bank of Romania, in Bucharest (1922–1926). Household was educated at Clifton College, Bristol (1914–1919), and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he received a B.A. He was born in Bristol his father Horace was a barrister. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male ( 1939). Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 – 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. ![]()
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