Mulgan, John, 1911-1945 (Personal Name)

nuc89-70822: His Report on experience [MI] 1947 (hdg. on MH rept.: Mulgan, John, 1911-1945; usage: John Mulgan)

LC data base, 06-12-90 (hdg.: Mulgan, John, 1911-1945)

Man alone, 1990, c1972: title page (John Mulgan) preliminary page (born in Christchurch in 1911; educated at Auckland Grammar School and read English literature at Oxford University; died in Cairo in 1945)

Wikipedia, December 16, 2013 (John Mulgan; John Alan Edward Mulgan (31 December 1911-26 April 1945); New Zealand writer, journalist and editor; studied at Auckland University College, before attending Merton College, Oxford; in the evening of Anzac Day 1945, Mulgan intentionally took an overdose of morphine. Speculation continues as to why he committed suicide. He is buried at Heliopolis military cemetery in Cairo)

The encyclopedia of New Zealand, via WWW, December 16, 2013 (Mulgan, John Alan Edward; born in Christchurch on 31 December 1911; on 26 April 1945 he was discovered dead in his bed in hotel in Cairo; he had taken an overdose of morphia. In December a consular court brought in a verdict of suicide. He was buried in the military cemetery at Heliopolis; literary reputation rests on two works: the novel Man alone (1939) and the memoir Report on experience (1947)) http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/en/biographies/4m68/mulgan-john-alan-edward

An encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1966, via WWW, December 16, 2013 (Mulgan, Lieutenant-Colonel John Alan Edward, M.C. (1911-45). Novelist; born in Christchurch on 31 December 1911; educated at Wellington College and Auckland Grammar School, and at Auckland University College, where he took an arts degree in 1933. He went on to Merton College, Oxford, where he read English with Edmund Blunden as his tutor and took a first class in the Schools in 1935. That year he joined the staff of the Clarendon Press in Oxford and was chiefly engaged in editorial work on English studies, though he also wrote articles for New Zealand papers on European affairs and attended one session of the League of Nations as observer for the New Zealand Government; death in Cairo on 26 April 1945) http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/mulgan-lieutenant-colonel-john-alan-edward-mc