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'''John Richard Lane Anderson''' (17 June 1911 – 21 August 1981) was a British journalist, sailor, and prolific author. After a number of short-term jobs, including a period in the Indian Army, Anderson joined ''[[The Guardian]]'' where he remained for the rest of his career.

He began to write books seriously in the 1960s, with a special interest in stories of real life adventure on the sea. He reported on [[Francis Chichester]]'s voyages and edited Chichester's ''Atlantic Adventure'' in 1962. In 1966, he was the leader of a ''Guardian''-sponsored crew that sailed a cutter from England to North America in order to replicate [[Leif Erikson]]'s voyage, and in 1967 he published an account of the journey.

He also produced topographical, children's, and other works but is best known for his Peter Blair and Piet Deventer mysteries, the last of which, ''Late Delivery'', was published posthumously in 1982.

==Early life==
John Anderson was born in [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]], [[British Guiana]] (modern Guyana),<ref>Kay, Ernest. (Ed.) (1976) ''[[The International Authors and Writers Who's Who]]''. 7th edition. Cambridge: Melrose Press. p. 14. {{ISBN|0900332344}}</ref> on 17 June 1911<ref name=family/> the son of a [[Colonial Office]] official who was a descendant of one of the founders of the colony. He was educated in England but left school at 17 after which he worked at [[Harold Monro]]'s Poetry Bookshop, a position he obtained after Monro read some of Anderson's poetry. He then had various jobs and matriculated at the University of London but left after a year.<ref name=obit/>

==Career==
Anderson's first journalistic job was on the ''Hornsey Journal'' after which he joined the ''News Chronicle''. He then tried to establish a soap manufactury in Trinidad, but after that failed he returned to Britain to work at Manchester's journal of the textile industry, the ''[[Textile Recorder]]''.<ref name=obit/><ref name="dict">{{cite book|author=Brake, Laurel & Marysa Demoor. (Eds.)|title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA620|year=2009|publisher=Academia Press & The British Library|location=Gent|isbn=978-90-382-1340-8|page=620}}</ref>

He was appointed to an emergency commission in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] as a second lieutenant 21 January 1942 with the 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles and promoted acting lieutenant 1 February 1942.<ref>July 1942 Indian Army List</ref> He taught [[gunner (artillery)|gunners]] [[trigonometry]] by writing a manual in [[Urdu]], that he learned in three months, in which he compared the relationship between the sides of a right-angled triangle to that between cousins of various degrees within a family.<ref name=obit/> He was invalided out of the Indian Army in 1944,<ref>London Gazette 21st July 1944 - The following officers relinquish their commissions on account of ill-health on the dates shown against their names: — Lt. J. R. L. ANDERSON, 15th May 1944, and is granted the honorary rank of Lt.</ref> from whom he refused to accept a disability pension due to the country's poverty, and was then taken on by ''[[The Guardian]]'' where he became the paper's correspondent at [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]'s headquarters in the later period of the [[Second World War]].<ref name=obit/>

After the end of the war he became ''The Guardian''{{'s}} labour correspondent and then an assistant editor in their Manchester office and a [[leader writer]]. A keen sailor himself, he reported on [[Francis Chichester]]'s voyages and edited Chichester's ''Atlantic Adventure'' in 1962.<ref name=obit/> In 1966, as yachting editor, he was the leader of a ''Guardian'' sponsored crew<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/03/vinland-vikings-guardian-expedition-america-1966 Guardian expedition in search of Vinland sets sail from Scarborough - archive, 1966.] Michael Parkin, ''The Guardian'', 3 May 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2019.</ref> that sailed a cutter from England to Martha's Vineyard via Iceland and Greenland in order to replicate [[Leif Erikson]]'s voyage.<ref name="Goud">{{cite book|author=Goudsward, David.|title=Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yq6DAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160|year=2014|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson|isbn=978-1-4766-0486-2|page=160}}</ref> In 1967 he published a book, ''Vinland Voyage'', about the trip.<ref>Anderson, J. R. L. (1967) ''Vinland Voyage''. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.</ref>

==Writing==
He published a volume of poems, ''The Lost Traveller'', in 1931, which was his last sole-authored work until ''Vinland Voyage'' in 1967. After that he was prolific, producing fiction, history, biography, topographical, and children's books. His non-fiction included ''East of Suez'' (1969), a history of [[British Petroleum]]; ''The Ulysses Factor'', a study of the exploring instinct; ''The Upper Thames'' (1970) in [[The Regions of Britain (book series)|The Regions of Britain]] series;<ref name=thee>"I will go with thee... Guide books reviewed", Adrienne Keith Cohen, ''The Guardian'', 24 May 1975, p. 18.</ref> and ''The Oldest Road'' about [[The Ridgeway]] (1975).<ref name=obit/>

Biographies were ''The Road from Wigan Pier'' about the union leader [[Les Cannon]] (1973), a memoir of the writer [[C. K. Ogden]] (1977), and ''High Mountains and Cold Seas'' about the mountaineer and sailor [[H. W. Tilman]] (1980).<ref name=obit/>

His fiction included works that crossed between crime, mystery, and the thriller, with Peter Blair and Piet Deventer as his principal protagonists, many of which were published by [[Victor Gollancz]] in their distinctive yellow-jackets.<ref name=gol>Anderson, J. R. L. (1978) ''Death in the Greenhouse''. London: Victor Gollancz. {{ISBN|0575025263}}</ref>

==Death and legacy==
Anderson died in Wantage, Oxfordshire, on 21 August 1981.<ref name=family>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZS-4TP5 John Richard L Anderson England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007.] Family Search. Retrieved 5 August 2019. {{subscription required}}</ref> His funeral was at St Peter's Church, [[Charney Bassett]], Oxfordshire. His last novel, ''Late Delivery'', was published posthumously in 1982<ref name=obit>"J. R. L. Anderson, a Guardian pioneer", ''The Guardian'', 24 August 1981, p. 2.</ref> and dedicated to the physician [[Ian Lister Cheese]]. An author's note at the start requested the co-operation of the reader in imagining the accents of the characters as the author had chosen to write in standard rather than phonetic or distorted English due to the difficulties of portraying accents in writing.<ref>Anderson, J. R. L. (1982) ''Late Delivery''. London: Gollancz. Author's note. {{ISBN|0575030852}}</ref>

Also published posthumously was ''Leeches and Breeches'', the memoir of a country town [[general practitioner]] physician [[Frederick Vaughan Squires]] (1895-1973) and his experiences in practice and in the First and Second World Wars. It was published in 2015 after compilation by his son Nick Squires of Wantage, with the help of his patient Anderson, who was credited as the editor.<ref>Squires, F. V. & J. R. L. Anderson (Ed.) (2015) ''Leeches and Breeches''. Faringdon: Red Cap. Cover notes. {{ISBN|9780993164224}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
Anderson's publications include:<ref>British Library search. 5 August 2019.</ref>
===Non-fiction===
* ''Vinland Voyage''. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1967.
* ''East of Suez: A study of Britain's greatest trading enterprise''. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1969. {{ISBN|0340109750}}
* ''The Ulysses Factor. The exploring instinct in man''. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1970. {{ISBN|0340107553}}
* ''The Upper Thames''. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1970. The Regions of Britain series. {{ISBN|0413274004}}<ref name=thee/>
* ''The Road from Wigan Pier: A Biography of Les Cannon''. Victor Gollancz, London, 1973. (With Olga Cannon) {{ISBN|0575014997}}
* ''The Oldest Road. An exploration of the Ridgeway.'' Wildwood House, London, 1975. {{ISBN|0704501678}} (With Fay Godwin)
* ''High Mountains and Cold Seas: A biography of H. W. Tilman.'' Victor Gollancz, London, 1980. {{ISBN|0575028068}}
* ''Learning to Die: A personal testimony''. Mowbray, London, 1983. {{ISBN|0264669282}}

===Edited non-fiction===
* ''History on the Road. A vintage car miscellany from "Manchester Guardian"''. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1958.
* Chichester, Francis. ''Atlantic Adventure''. Allen & Unwin, London, 1962. {{ISBN|0049100041}}
* ''C. K. Ogden: A collective memoir''. Elek: Pemberton, 1977. {{ISBN|9780301760612}} (With P. Sargant Florence)
* Squires, F. V. ''Leeches and Breeches''. Red Cap, Faringdon, 2015. {{ISBN|9780993164224}}

===Peter Blair mysteries===
[[File:Death in the Greenhouse by JRL Anderson.jpg|thumb|upright|First UK edition (1978) of ''Death in the Greenhouse'']]
All Gollancz, London.
* ''Death on the Rocks'' (1973)
* ''Death in the Thames'' (1974)
* ''Death in the North Sea'' (1975)
* ''Death in the Desert'' (1976)
* ''Death in the Caribbean'' (1977)
* ''Death in the City'' (1977)
* ''Death in the Greenhouse'' (1978)<ref name=gol/>
* ''Death in a High Latitude'' (1981)

===Piet Deventer Investigations===
All Gollancz, London.
* ''A Sprig of Sea Lavender'' (1978)
* ''Festival'' (1979)
* ''Late Delivery'' (1982)

===Children's===
* ''Voyage of the 'Griffin' - as told in "Jackanory" by John Anderson''. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1968. {{ISBN|0563083182}}
* ''The Discovery of America''. Puffin, Harmondsworth, 1973. Illustrated by [[Graham Humphreys (book illustrator)|Graham Humphreys]]. {{ISBN|0140610073}}
* ''The Vikings''. Puffin, Harmondsworth, 1974. Illustrated by Graham Humphreys. {{ISBN|0140610146}}
* ''Discovering History''. Victor Gollancz, London, 1975. Illustrated by Graham Humphreys. {{ISBN|0575019522}}

===Other fiction===
* ''The Lost Traveller''. E. Mathews & Clark, London, 1931. (poetry)<ref name=obit/>
* ''Reckoning in Ice''. Gollancz, London, 1971. {{ISBN|0575013214}}
* ''The Nine-Spoked Wheel''. Gollancz, London, 1975. {{ISBN|057501945X}}
* ''Redundancy Pay''. Gollancz, London, 1976. {{ISBN|0575020830}}

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