He is notable for his membership of the avant-garde, modernist, literary and artistic circles of the Left Bank of Paris in the 1930s.
Should lead the College to great victories next season"[1] This laid the foundation for a lifelong interest in cricket.
At the age of 19, in 1915, Symond enlisted and served in the Infantry for three years in Northern France, on the Western Front, during World War I.
[6] The Intelligence Corps was formally reconstructed in July 1940, having been disbanded after World War I. Ronald Symond resided in both France and England between 1919 and 1939, becoming bilingual, and was a minor figure among the expatriate writers living in Paris in that period.
[8] In March 1932 Symond published his translation[9] of Mr. James Joyce et son nouveau Roman 'Work in Progress', by Louis Gillet.
[11][12] He was a signatory, together with Eugene Jolas, to a manifesto of expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1930s, entitled Poetry is Vertical.