Surname: Moore Forename(s): George Augustus b. 24 February 1852. d. 21 January 1933. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet, and journalist. Born in County Mayo,
Ireland. Moved with his family to London in 1868. Inherited his father's Irish estate
when he came of age in 1873. Studied to be an artist in Paris from 1873, returning
to London in 1879 when he began working as a journalist and fiction writer. Controversial
for his reinvention of novelistic realism, and for his campaign against the circulating
libraries. His novels include Vain Fortune (1891), Esther Waters (1894), and Evelyn Innes (1898). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)