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A Short Biography of Malcolm Muggeridge

Author Name:

Malcolm Muggeridge

Born As:

Malcolm Muggeridge

Other Names:

Born:

24 Mar 1903

Died:

14 Nov 1990




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Broadcaster, journalist, author, media personality and satirist.                           
Selected Works:

Books:
Three flats: a play in three acts - 1931
Winter in Moscow - 1934
Picture Palace - 1934, 1987
The Earnest Atheist. A study of Samuel Butler, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode - 1936
The Thirties, 1930–1940, in Great Britain - 1940
Affairs of the heart - 1949
How can you Bear to be Human - 1957 by Nicholas Bentley - Muggeridge wrote the introduction.
Tread softly for you tread on my jokes - 1966
Jesus Rediscovered - 1969
Something Beautiful for God - 1971
Paul, envoy extraordinary - 1972 with Alec Vidler
Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography - 1972,2006 
Jesus, the man who lives - 1975
Jesus: The Man Who Lives - 1976
A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky - 1976, 2002 -  Full text online.
Christ and the Media - 1977
In a valley of this restless mind - 1978
The End of Christendom - 1980
Like it was: The diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge - 1981
Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim - 1988,2005
Chronicles of Wasted Time: volumes I & II including 'The Right Eye' - 2006

Sermons:

Ultimate concern. 'Am I a Christian?', etc., Cambridge - 1967
Living water, Aberdeen - 1968
Another King, St Andrews Press - 1968
Still I believe: nine talks broadcast during Lent and Holy Week - 1969
Light in our darkness, Edinburgh - 1969
Fundamental questions : what is life about?, Cambridge - 1970
America Needs a Punch, Esquire (April 1958, 59–60, 60.                          
Mother Annie Booler, five sons.
Father H.T. Muggeridge was a Labour councillor in Croydon, South London and, for a short time, a Member of Parliament in Ramsey MacDonald's second labour government.

Wife Katherine Dobbs                          
                          
Muggeridge was a controversial figure - known as a drinker, heavy smoker and womaniser in earlier life, only to later become a leading figure in the Nationwide Festival of Light of 1971, protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex and violence in Britain, and advocating the teaching of Christ as the key to recovering moral stability in the nation, becoming a Catholic 1982.

Credited with popularising Mother Teresa.