Julian Gustave Symons (ur. 30 maja 1912 w Londynie, zm. 19 listopada 1994 w Kent) – brytyjski pisarz, autor kryminałów, biograf, poeta i krytyk literacki.
Życiorys Julian Gustave Symons urodził się w Londynie, w rodzinie żydowskich emigrantów z Rosji. W wieku czternastu lat porzucił szkołę. W 1937 założył poetyckie czasopismo Twentieth Century Verse. W latach 1976–1985 był prezesem Detection Club.
Jego starszy brat A. J. A. Symons również był pisarzem.
Publikacje Napisał ponad osiemdziesiąt prac o różnej tematyce.
Powieści kryminalne The Immaterial Murder Case (1945) A Man Called Jones (1947) Bland Beginning (1949) The Thirty-First of February (1950) The Broken Penny (1953) The Narrowing Circle (1954) The Paper Chase (1956) The Colour of Murder (1957) The Gigantic Shadow (1958) The Progress of a Crime The Killing of Francie Lake (1962) The End of Solomon Grundy (1964) The Belting Inheritance (1965) The Man Who Killed Himself (1967) (sfilmowana jako Arthur! Arthur!) The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968) The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970) The Players and the Game (1972) The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973) A Three-Pipe Problem (1975) The Blackheath Poisonings (1978) Sweet Adelaide (1980) The Detling Murders (1982) The Name of Annabel Lee (1983) The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985) The Kentish Manor Murders (1988) Death's Darkest Face (1990) Something Like a Love Affair (1992) Playing Happy Families (1994) A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)
Opowiadania kryminalne Murder! Murder! (1961) Francis Quarles Investigates (1965) How to Trap a Crook (1977) Great Detectives - Seven Original Investigations (1981) The Tigers of Subtopia (1982) Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule The Man Who Hated Television (1995) A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet (2000) The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006)
Biografie, książki historyczne i krytyka literacka A J A Symons: His Life & Speculations (1950) Charles Dickens (1951) Thomas Carlyle. The life and ideas of a prophet (1952?) Criminal Acts (1955) Horatio Bottomley (1955) The General Strike - A Historical Portrait (1959) A Reasonable Doubt (1960) The Thirties: a Dream Revolved (1960) Buller’s Campaign (1963) England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition (1965) Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from 1840 (1966) Critical Occasions (1966) Between the Wars (1972) Notes From Another Country (1972) Bloody Murder - From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History (1972) A Reflection on Auden (1973) The Angry 30s (1976) The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1978) Conan Doyle - Portrait of an Artist (1979) Agatha Christie - the Art of Her Crimes (1981) Critical Observations: Diverse Essays (1981) Crime and Detection Quiz (1983) 1948 and 1984. The Second Orwell Memorial Lecture (1984) Dashiel Hammett (1985) Two Brothers. Fragments of a Correspondence (1985) Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939 (1987) Oscar Wilde: A problem in Biography (1988) Somebody Else (1990) The Thirties and The Nineties (1990) Portraits of The Missing: Imaginary Biographies (1991) Does Literature Exist? (1992) Criminal Practices -Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s (1994) Hell Gate
Poezja Confusions About X (Fortune Press 1938) The Second Man (1943)
Nagrody 1957: Crossed Red Herring Awards za The Colour of Murder 1961: Edgar Awards w kategorii Best Novel za Progress of a Crime 1973: Edgar Awards w kategorii Special Edgars za Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel 1982: Edgar Awards w kategorii The Grand Master 1990: Diamentowy Sztylet
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Kategoria:Brytyjscy autorzy powieści kryminalnych i sensacyjnych Kategoria:Pisarze związani z Londynem Kategoria:Urodzeni w 1912 Kategoria:Zmarli w 1994 Kategoria:Ludzie urodzeni w Londynie