{"name": "Gerald Brenan", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Edward FitzGerald \"Gerald\" Brenan (7 April 1894 \u2013 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.\r\n\r\nBrenan is best known for *The Spanish Labyrinth*, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for *South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village*. He was appointed in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982. \r\n\r\n**Source**: [Gerald Brenan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brenan) on Wikipedia."}, "alternate_names": ["Edward FitzGerald Brenan", "Brenan", "G Brenan", "Gerlad Brenan"], "source_records": ["amazon:0343248654", "bwb:9780342110971", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-10-04:O8-CQC-093", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:493890558:1133"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [7426600, 7426599], "birth_date": "7 April 1894", "death_date": "19 January 1987", "personal_name": "Brenan, Gerald.", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q3103862", "isni": "0000000115592385", "viaf": "7515708", "lc_naf": "n50042468", "goodreads": "31248"}, "key": "/authors/OL137379A", "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T17:49:56.625561"}}