Pierre Nordon
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Prosper Pierre Nordon (25 may 1927 - 17 july 2024) was a French scholar, critic, and doctor of letters, translator from English into French, and a maître de conférences at the Faculty of Letters in Nantes in 1964.
Nordon is best remembered as the author of the biography Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : l'homme et l'oeuvre (1964), later published in English as Conan Doyle: A Biography in 1967. He also wrote Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Sherlock Holmes sans l'avoir jamais rencontré (Everything you always wanted to know about Sherlock Holmes without ever having met him) in 1994.
Pierre Nordon was an honorary member of The Arthur Coan Doyle Society (1989-2003).
Bibliography
Books
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : l'homme et l'oeuvre (1964, Marcel Didier [FR])
- Conan Doyle: A Biography (1967, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [UK]) one chapter removed
- Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Sherlock Holmes sans l'avoir jamais rencontré (1994, LGF [FR])
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : l'homme et l'oeuvre (1964, Marcel Didier) -
Conan Doyle: A Biography (1967, Holt, Rinehart and Winston) -
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Sherlock Holmes sans l'avoir jamais rencontré (1994, LGF)
Articles
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et la France (1957, Études Anglaises [FR])
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a complex personality (1959, The Manchester Guardian [UK])
- Preface of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: centenary, 1859-1959 (1959, John Murray) under name P. Weil-Nordon
- Art and the Blood (1991, A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Vol. 2, No. 1 [UK])
- Pierre Nordon in London (1999, A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Vol. 9 [UK])
- Preface of Two Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1972, Bordas [FR])
Translation
- Le problème final / The Final Problem (2021, Pocket [FR])
See also
- Review of "Tout ce que vous avez voulu savoir sur Sherlock Holmes" (1994, The Parish Magazine No. 11), by Christopher Roden
- Through the Magic Door Again: Toronto 1994 Revisited (quote by Pierre Nordon)
