Career
Botsford’s work as a novelist is divided into two periods: the first four novels – The Master Race, The Eighth-best-dressed-Man in the World, Benvenuto and The March-Man – were either semi-autobiographical or political in nature; his later books (after he returned to fiction in 1989) include three major autobiographical works: O Brother!, The Mothers, and Death and the Maiden form a coherent trilogy about his brother, his early wives (and mothers) and, in the last, a reprise of The March-Man, his father. During this second period he also published a series of stories and novellas, described as ‘imaginary biographies’, collected in Out of Nowhere . At the same time he also wrote five non-fiction books on sporting figures and four crime and espionage novels under the pseudonym I.I. Magdalen.
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