Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939), was an English author of complex and symbolic novels which show the influence of the psychological novels of Henry James. In The Good Soldier (1915), his best-known work, Ford revealed with keen irony the declining influence of the upper class in English life. This novel was followed by the series called Parade’s End, which consists of Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928). The series traces changes in English society during and after World War I. Ford and Joseph Conrad wrote two novels together, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903).
Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer on Dec. 17, 1873, in Merton, England. He edited two famous literary magazines, the English Review and the Transatlantic Review, and was writer-in-residence at Olivet (Michigan) College from 1937 until his death on June 26, 1939.
