Ford Madox Ford, born in Surrey in 1873, was a prolific novelist, poet, critic and editor. Born to a German father and an English mother, he was brought up in London, later living in Kent and Sussex, and, after the First World War, in France and America. He enlisted in 1915 and served from 1916-1917, during the Battle of the Somme and at the Ypres Salient. His journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th Century English literature, but he is best remembered for his highly-regarded publications The Good Soldier, the four novels known as Parade's End and the historical Fifth Queen trilogy.