The Keys of the Kingdom (1942 filmed 1944), about a Roman Catholic missionary in China, was one of his most popular books. It was followed by The Citadel (1937 filmed 1938), which showed how private physicians’ greed can distort good medical practice. This book was an immediate success in Britain.Ĭronin’s fourth novel, The Stars Look Down (1935 filmed 1939), which chronicles various social injustices in a North England mining community from 1903 to 1933, gained him an international readership. He opened medical practice in London in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first novel, Hatter’s Castle (1931 filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth. He practiced in South Wales (1921–24) and then, as medical inspector of mines, investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry. 6, 1981, Montreux, Switz.), Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social criticism won a large Anglo-American readership.Ĭronin was educated at the University of Glasgow and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I. Cronin, in full Archibald Joseph Cronin, (born July 19, 1896, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scot.-died Jan.

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