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Ronald William Fordham Searle

Male : Cartoonist, Caricaturist, Illustrator, designer, Publisher and humorist. Married Kaye Webb in 1948 (dissolved 1967) & Monica Koenig in 1967. Searle lived in Paris from 1961 and moved to the south of France in 1977. See Willans
Nationality : English Place of Birth : St Andrews, Cambridge

Date of Birth : 1920

Pseudonyms : Timothy Shy

Other Work : Punch Theatre Artist 1949-62

Education : Boys' Central School, Cambridge & Cambridge School of Art
1946-1955
Forty Drawings
(1946 CUP)
Le Nouveau Ballet Anglai
(1947 Les Editions Montbrun, Paris)
Medisances
(1953 Editions Delpire, Paris)
The Rake's Progress
(1955 Perpetua Books)

1956-1960
Modern Types
(1955 Cresset Press 8/6) - with Geoffrey Gorer
Merry England
(1956 Perpetua)
The Investigator
(1956 Sidgwick & Jackson) - with Reuben Ship. Searle
The Big City or The New Mayhew
(1958 Perpetua) - with Alex Atkinson. Searle
Russia for Beginners
(1960) - with A Atkinson
The Penguin Ronald Searle
(1960 Penguin 3/6)

1961-1965
Which Way Did He Go ?
(1961 Perpetua)
Escape from the Amazon !
(1964 Perpetua) - with Alex Atkinson
From Fozen North to Filthy Lucre
(1964 Heinemann)
Searle in the Sixties
(1964 Penguin)
Pardong M'sieur
(1965 Editions Denoel, Paris)

1966-1970
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
(1966 Readers Digest)
Searle's Cats
(1967 Dobson)
The Rake's Progress
(1968 Dobson)
The Square Egg
(1968 Weidenfeld)
Take One Toad
(1968 Dobson) - with D B Wyndham
Hello - Where Did al the People Go ?
(1969 Weidenfeld)
Filles de Hambourg
(1969 Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris)
Homage a Toulouse Lautrec
(1969 Editions Empreinte, Paris) (1970 Weidenfeld)
Secret Sketchbook : The Back Streets of Hamburg
(1970 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

1971-1980
The Addict
(1971 Dobson)
Dick Deadeye
(1975 Cape £2.50)
More Cats
(1975 Dobson)
Zoodiac
(1977 Dobson) (1977 Pantheon Books, NY $6.95)
The King of Beasts and Other Creatures
(1980 Allen Lane)

1981 Onwards
The Big Fat Cat Book
(1982 Macmillan)
The Illustrated Winespeak
(1983 Souvenir Press)
Ronald Searle's Golden Oldies
(1985 Pavilion)
Something in the Cellar
(1986 Souvenir)
To the Kwai and Back : War Drawings 1939-1945
(1986 Collins £15)
Ah Yes, I Remember It Well ... Paris 1961-1975
(1987 Michael Joseph)
Slightly Foxed .. But Still Desirable
(1989 Souvenir)

Haven't We Met Somewhere Before ? - with Heinz Huber
The Big City - with Alex Atkinson
USA for Beginners - with A Atkinson

St Trinian's Books
Hurrah for St Trinians & Other Lapses
(1948 Macdonald) (1948 Macdonald US)
- foreword by D B Wyndham Lewis
The Female Approach
(1949 Macdonald)
Back to the Slaughterhouse
(1951 Macdonald)
The Terror of St Trinian's
(1952 Parrish) - written by Timothy Shy (D B Wyndham Lewis)
Souls in Torment
(1953 Perpetua & M Joseph) - with C Day Lewis
The St Trinian's Story
(1959 Perpetua) - with Kaye Webb

FILMS
"The Belles of St Trinian's"
(1954)
"Blue Murder at St Trinians"
(1957)
"The Pure Hell of St Trinians"
(1960)
"The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery"
(1966)
"The Wildcats of St Trinians"
(1980)

The Molesworth Quartet
(All Max Parrish)
(written by Geoffrey Willans, Cartoons by Searle)
Down with Skool !
(1953)
How to be Topp
(1954)
Whizz for Atomms
(1956)
The Dog's Ear Book
(1958)
The Compleet Molesworth
Back in the Jug Agane
(1959)
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Russell BRADDON : The Naked Island
(1952 Laurie)
Patrick CAMPBELL : A long Drink of Cold Water
(1949 Falcon Press)
Life in Thin Slices
(1951 Falcon Press)
Patrick Campbell's Omnibus
(1954 Hulton Press)
W COWPER : John Gilpin
(1952 Chiswick Press - 1600) (1953 King Penguin)
J DAVIES : Monte Carlo or Bust
(1969 Dobson) - et al
Charles DICKENS : A Christmas Carol
(1961 Perpetua)
Great Expectations
(1962 Michael Joseph)
Oliver Twist
(1962 Michael Joseph)
Kildare DOBBS : The Great Fur Opera - Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1970
(1970 Dennis Dobson 30/-)
Christopher FRY : A Phoenix Too Frequent
(1959 OUP)
Robert GRAVES : The Anger of Achilles
(1959)
R HASTAIN : White Coolie
(1947 Hodder & Stoughton)
Denys PARSONS : It Must be True .. It was in all the Papers
(1952 Macdonald)
G RAINBIRD : The Subtle Alchemist
(1973)
R E RASPE : The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(1969 Pantheon US) (1985 Harrap)
Singular Travels, Campaigns & Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(1987 Methuen)
B RICHARDSON & A ANDREWS : Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
(1965 Dobson)
Irwin SHAW : Paris ! Paris !
(1977 Weidenfeld £4.95)
Kaye WEBB : Paris Sketchbook
(1950 Saturn Press)
Looking at London
(1953 News Chronicle)
Refugees : A Report in Words and Drawings
(1960 Penguin 2/6)

PERIODICALS
Circus, Granta, Graphis, Holiday, Life, Lilliput, Punch, New Yorker, News Chronicle,
Radio Times, Saturday Book, Sunday Express, New York Tribune

READING
Russell Davies : Ronald Searle - A Biography
(1990 Sinclair-Stevenson)

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