Vincent Brome /bruːm/ (14 July 1910 – 16 October 2004) was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters.
Having been declared unfit for active duty, he worked for the British Ministry of Information during World War II.
[1] Following the electoral success of the Labour Party in 1945, Brome turned his hand to biography writing.
At the time of his death, aged 94, Brome still occupied the third story flat he had lived in for fifty years despite growing frailty and deafness.
[1] Eighteen boxes of his personal papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.