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MacInnes, Colin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
English novelist, b. London. Son of the novelist Angela Thirkell,
MacInnes was educated in Australia and served in the British intelligence corps during World War
II. He was best known for his “London novels,” which delineate various types of London life. They
display MacInnes’s talent for acute observation, sympathy for the underdog, and interest in
sociology. [eng]
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