Sassoon also wrote six memorable autobiographical books. In three of these--Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930), and Sherston's Progress (1936)--he presented his life in a partially fictionalized form through the "journeys" of a character named George Sherston. (The trilogy appeared in one volume in 1937 as The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston.)Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man sold extremely well in both England and the United States and secured an audience for the two later volumes. It introduced Sassoon as an excellent writer in prose and won for him two distinguished awards: The Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In a second autobiographical trilogy--The Old Century and Seven More Years (1938), The Weald of Youth (1942), and Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920 (1945)--Sassoon presented his life to 1920 without a fictional facade.
Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon grew up in Kent, loving the weald and the outdoor sports of the country gentry--fox hunting, golf, and cricket. His parents separated in 1901, and his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, died of tuberculosis when Siegfried was not quite nine.
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