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Honor Tracy (October 19, 1913 – June 13, 1989) was a British writer of novels and travel literature. ==Life and career== Tracy was born Honor Lilbush Wingfield Tracy in 1913 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, one of four children of a surgeon, Humphrey Wingfield Tracy, and an artist, Chrystabel Miner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.traceyclann.com/files/Honor%20Lilbush%20Wingfield%20Tracy.htm )〕 After an education at the Grove School, London, and overseas in Dresden and Paris, she worked first as an assistant in a London publishing house and then for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer’s London office.〔 On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Tracy joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and worked in its intelligence department until 1941. She was then attached to the Ministry of Information as a specialist on Japan for the remainder of the war. She worked for ''The Observer'' newspaper as a columnist and as a long-time foreign correspondent. She wrote also for the ''Sunday Times'' and for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After the war, Tracy spent two years in Ireland working for the ''Irish Digest'' and for ''The Bell'' magazine, alongside her lover Seán Ó Faoláin. In 1947, she went to France and then roamed East Europe for the Observer. In 1948 she went to Japan for eight months and on her return to Ireland wrote ''Kakemono'', an account of her travels there. She was described as "a brilliant linguist (she speaks French, German, Russian, Italian and some Japanese)", which assisted her greatly in her travel writing. Tracy then became a newspaper correspondent in Dublin. During this period, she was the subject of a lawsuit by Maurice O'Connell, parish priest of Doneraile, Cork, who claimed he had been libelled by a pointed article Tracy had written in the ''Sunday Times'' about the new parochial house which he was building. Tracy successfully counter-sued and was awarded £3000 in damages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Honor Tracy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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