{"name": "Lawrence Durrell", "birth_date": "1912", "alternate_names": ["Lawrence durrell", "LAWRENCE DURRELL", "Lawrence DURRELL", "Durrell Lawrence", "Durrell, Lawrence George", "Lawrence George Durrell", "Lawrence [1912 - 1990] Durrell", "DURRELL,Lawrence", "lawrence durrell"], "death_date": "1990", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "personal_name": "Durrell, Lawrence.", "links": [{"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawrence-Durrell", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL21250A", "source_records": ["amazon:9875664022", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-12-21", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-29", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-01-06", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-08-30:O8-CEG-268", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-05-24:KM-457-102", "ia:balthazar0000lawr", "ia:balthazar0000lawr_b6n1", "ia:balthazar0000lawr_y0i7"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Lawrence George Durrell (Jalandhar, India, 27 February 1912-Sommi\u00e8res, France, 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Durrell resisted being associated solely with the UK and preferred to be considered a cosmopolitan. His most famous work is *The Alexandria Quartet,* published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, *Justine.* He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell."}, "photos": [10485806, 10485810, 10485807], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "68928525", "wikidata": "Q219784", "isni": "0000000110689858"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-06T17:05:58.693521"}}