Ford Madox Ford wrote nearly 80 books as well as editing two very influential literary magazines - the "English Review" and the "Transatlantic Review". This biography by the author of "Breed of Heroes", which won the "Royal Society of Literature Award", explores his life and work. He discovered D.H.Lawrence, patronised Ezra Pound, publicised James Joyce, employed Ernest Hemingway, and collaborated with Conrad, but nevertheless has been largely neglected in literary circles. Alan Judd regards him as, perhaps, the last large-scale man of letters.