Richard Condon

Richard Condon
Richard Condon
Born	Richard Thomas Condon; March 18, 1915; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1996 (aged 81); Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Fiction

Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 in New York City – April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas) was a prolific and popular American political novelist. Though his works were satire, they were generally transformed into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other mediums, such as cinema. All 26 books were written in distinctive Condon style, which combined fast-pace, outrage, and frequent humor while focusing almost obsessively at monetary greed and political corruption. Condon himself once said: “Every book I’ve ever written has been about abuse of power. I feel very strongly about that. I’d like people to know how deeply their politicians wrong them.”^[1] Condon’s books were occasionally bestsellers, and many of his books were made into films; he is primarily remembered for his 1959 The Manchurian Candidate and, many years later, a series of four novels about a family of New York gangsters named Prizzi.

Condon’s writing was known for its complex plotting, fascination with trivia, and loathing for those in power; at least two of his books featured thinly disguised versions of Richard Nixon.^{[citation needed]} His characters tend to be driven by obsession, usually sexual or political, and family loyalty. His plots often have elements of classical tragedy, with protagonists whose pride leads them to destroy what they love. Some of his books, most notably Mile High (1969), are perhaps best described as secret history.^{[citation needed]} And Then We Moved to Rossenarra is a humorous autobiographical recounting of various places in the world where he had lived and his family’s 1970s move to Rossenarra, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland.

Early life[edit]

Born in New York City, Condon attended DeWitt Clinton High School.^[2]

After service in the United States Merchant Marine, Condon achieved moderate success as a Hollywood publicist, ad writer and Hollywood agent. Condon turned to writing in 1957. Employed by United Artists as an ad writer, he complained that he was wasting time in Hollywood and wanted to write a novel. Without Condon’s knowledge, his boss, Max E. Youngstein, deducted money from his salary, then fired him after a year, returning the amount of money he had deducted in the form of a Mexican bank account and the key to a house overlooking the ocean in Mexico. Youngstein told him to write his book.^[3] His second novel, The Manchurian Candidate (1959), featured a dedication to Youngstein and was made into a successful film.

Basic theme throughout Condon’s books[edit]

In Mile High, his eighth novel, one primarily about how a single spectacularly ruthless gangster named Eddie West imposes Prohibition upon an unwary populace, Condon sums up the theme of all his books in a single angry cri de coeur:

“Prohibition fused the amateurism and catch-as-catch-can national tendencies of the early days of the republic with a more modern, highly organized lust for violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biggest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward into greater violence and more unnecessary deaths, into newer and more positive celebration of nonlife, all so that the savage, simple-minded people might be educated into greater frenzies of understanding that power and money are the only desirable objects for this life.”^[4]

“Manchurian Candidate”[edit]

Although not perhaps actually originated by Condon himself, his use of “the Manchurian Candidate” made that phrase a part of the English language. Frank Rich, for example, in his column in the “Sunday Opinion” of The New York Times of August 17, 2008, writes about Barack Obama with a reference to both a well-known actress and a well-known plot element in the first movie version of Condon’s 1959 book:

“[Obama’s] been done in by that ad with Britney [Spears] and Paris [Hilton] and a new international crisis that allows [John] McCain to again flex his Manchurian Candidate military cred. Let the neocons identify a new battleground for igniting World War III… and McCain gets with the program as if Angela Lansbury has just dealt him the Queen of Hearts“.^[5]

“The fiction of information”[edit]

Condon’s works are difficult to categorize precisely: A 1971 Time magazine review declared that, “Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy.” ^[6] The headline of his obituary in The New York Times called him a “political novelist”,^[7] but went on to say that, “Novelist is too limited a word to encompass the world of Mr. Condon. He was also a visionary, a darkly comic conjurer, a student of American mythology and a master of conspiracy theories, as vividly demonstrated in ‘The Manchurian Candidate.'”^[7] Although his books combined many different elements, including occasional outright fantasy and science fiction, they were, above all, written to entertain the general public. He had, however, a genuine disdain, outrage, and even hatred for many of the mainstream political corruptions that he found so prevalent in American life. In a 1977 quotation, he said that:^[8]

“…people are being manipulated, exploited, murdered by their servants, who have convinced these savage, simple-minded populations that they are their masters, and that it hurts the head, if one thinks. People accept servants as masters. My novels are merely entertaining persuasions to get the people to think in other categories.”

With his long lists of absurd trivia and “mania for absolute details”, Condon was, along with Ian Fleming, one of the early exemplars of those called by Pete Hamill in a New York Times review, “the practitioners of what might be called the New Novelism… Condon applies a dense web of facts to fiction…. There might really be two kinds of fiction: the fiction of sensibility and the fiction of information… As a practitioner of the fiction of information, no one else comes close to him.”^[9]

Quirks and characteristics[edit]

Condon attacked his targets wholeheartedly but with a uniquely original style and wit that made almost any paragraph from one of his books instantly recognizable. Reviewing one of his works in the International Herald Tribune, playwright George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter), who had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, wrote:

“The arrival of a new novel by Richard Condon is like an invitation to a party…. the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similes, the lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious, almost child-like joy in composing complex sentences that go bang at the end in the manner of exploding cigars is both exhilarating and as exhausting as any good party ought to be.”

Metaphors and similes[edit]

From his 1975 novel, Money Is Love, comes a fine example of the “lunacy of his metaphors”: “Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.” ^[10]

The Manchurian Candidate offers:

“The effects of the narcotics, techniques, and suggestions… achieved a result that approximated the impact an entire twenty-five-cent jar of F. W. Woolworth vanishing cream might have on vanishing an aircraft carrier of the Forrestal class when rubbed into the armor plate.”^[11]

Lists and trivia[edit]

Condon was also enamored of long lists of detailed trivia that, while at least marginally pertinent to the subject at hand, are almost always an exercise in gleeful exaggeration and joyful spirits. In An Infinity of Mirrors, for instance, those in attendance of the funeral of a famous French actor and notable lover are delineated as:

Seven ballerinas of an amazing spectrum of ages were at graveside. Actresses of films, opera, music halls, the theatre, radio, carnivals, circuses, pantomimes, and lewd exhibitions mourned in the front line. There were also society leaders, lady scientists, women politicians, mannequins, couturières, Salvation Army lassies, all but one of his wives, a lady wrestler, a lady matador, twenty-three lady painters, four lady sculptors, a car-wash attendant, shopgirls, shoplifters, shoppers, and the shopped; a zoo assistant, two choir girls, a Métro attendant from the terminal at the Bois de Vincennes, four beauty-contest winners, a chambermaid; the mothers of children, the mothers of men, the grandmothers of children and the grandmothers of men; and the general less specialized, female public-at-large which had come from eleven European countries, women perhaps whom he had only pinched or kissed absent-mindedly while passing through his busy life. They attended twenty-eight hundred and seventy strong, plus eleven male friends of the deceased.^[12]

Writing about The Whisper of the Axe in the daily book review column of Friday, May 21, 1976, in the New York Times, Richard R. Lingeman praised the book in particular and Condon in general for his “extravagance of invention unique with him.” ^[13]

Not everyone was as exhilarated by Condon’s antics, however. In a long Times Sunday review just two days after Lingeman’s, Roger Sale excoriated Condon as a writer of “how-to books” in general, this book in particular, and Condon’s habit of using lists: “A lot of it is done with numbers arbitrarily chosen to falsely simulate precision.” ^[14]

Real-life names in his books[edit]

All of Condon’s books have, to an unknown degree, the names of real people in them as characters, generally very minor or peripheral. The most common, which appears in all of his books, is some variation of Franklin M. Heller. Among them are F.M. Heller, Frank Heller, Franz Heller, and F. Marx Heller. The real-life Heller was apparently a television director in New York City in the 1950s, ’60s, and 70s, who initially lived on Long Island and then moved to a house on Rockrimmon Road in Stamford, Connecticut.^[15] Beginning with Mile High in 1969, mentions of a Rockrimmon Road or Rockrimmon House also began to appear regularly in the novels. Late in life Heller grew a thick white beard and became a devotee of needlework—both traits that the fictional Hellers shared, sometimes to ludicrous effect, as when a battle-hardened Admiral Heller is depicted issuing orders while absorbed in needlework. The real-life Heller made one needlework depiction of the manor house in Ireland in which Condon was living at the time.

Condon was a great friend of actor Allan Melvin, having written a nightclub act for him. Condon later became a publicist for The Phil Silvers Show (“Sgt. Bilko”), on which Melvin played Cpl. Henshaw. Melvin’s name shows up in several Condon books, most prominently as hitman Al (the Plumber) Melvini in “Prizzi’s Honor” (a play on Melvin’s “Al the Plumber” character in Liquid-Plumr commercials.) In The Manchurian Candidate, with the exception of Marco, Shaw and Mavole, all of Marco’s platoon members are named for the cast/crew of “Bilko”: (Nat) Hiken, (Maurice) Gosfield, (Jimmy) Little, (Phil) Silvers, (Allan) Melvin, (Mickey) Freeman and (Harvey) Lembeck.

Career in films[edit]

For many years a Hollywood publicity man for Walt Disney and other studios, Condon took up writing relatively late in life and his first novel, The Oldest Confession, was not published until he was 43. The demands of his career with United Artists—promoting dreadful movies such as The Pride and the Passion and A King and Four Queens—led to a series of bleeding ulcers and a determination to do something else.

His next book, The Manchurian Candidate, combined all the elements that defined his works for the next 30 years: nefarious conspiracies, satire, black humor, outrage at political and financial corruption in the American scene, breath-taking elements from thrillers and spy fiction, horrific and grotesque violence, and an obsession with the minutiae of food, drink, and fast living. It quickly made him, for a few years at least, the center of a cult devoted to his works. As he rapidly produced more and more books with the same central themes, however, this following fell away and his critical reputation diminished. Still, over the next three decades Condon produced works that returned him to favor, both with the critics and the book-buying public, such as Mile High, Winter Kills, and the first of the Prizzi books, Prizzi’s Honor.

Of his numerous books that were turned into Hollywood movies, The Manchurian Candidate was filmed twice. The first version, in 1962, which starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury, followed the book with great fidelity, and is now highly regarded as a glimpse into the mindset of its era. Janet Maslin, writing already over two decades ago, said in The New York Times In 1996 that it was “arguably the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film, yet by now it has developed a kind of innocence.”^[7]

The Keener’s Manual[edit]

Beginning with his first book, The Oldest Confession, Condon frequently prefaced his novels with excerpts of verse from a so-called Keener’s Manual; these epigraphs foreshadowed the theme of the book or, in several instances, gave the book its title. The Keener’s Manual, however, was a fictional invention by Condon and does not actually exist. A “keen” is a “lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice or sometimes in a wordless cry” ^[16] and a “keener” is a professional mourner, usually a woman in Ireland, who “utters the keen… at a wake or funeral.” ^[17]

Five of Condon’s first six books derived their titles from the fictional manual, the only exception being his most famous book, The Manchurian Candidate. The epigraph in The Manchurian Candidate, however, “I am you and you are me /and what have we done to each other?” is a recurring theme in earlier Condon’s books: in various forms it also appears as dialog in both The Oldest Confession and Some Angry Angel. Among other epigraphs, the last line of “The riches I bring you /Crowding and shoving, /Are the envy of princes: /A talent for loving.” is the title of Condon’s fourth novel. His fifth and sixth novels, An Infinity of Mirrors and Any God Will Do, also derive their titles from excerpts of the manual.

Plagiarism charge[edit]

In 1998 a California software engineer noticed several paragraphs in The Manchurian Candidate that appeared nearly identical to portions of the celebrated 1934 novel I, Claudius by the English writer Robert Graves. She wrote about the apparent plagiarism on her website but her discovery went unnoticed by most of the world until Adair Lara, a longtime San Francisco Chronicle staff writer, wrote a lengthy article about the accusation in 2003.^[18] Reprinting the paragraphs in question, she also solicited the opinion of a British forensic linguist, who concluded that Condon had unquestionably plagiarized at least two paragraphs of Graves’s work. By this time, however, more than seven years had passed since Condon’s death and Lara’s article also failed to generate any literary interest outside the Chronicle.

In Some Angry Angel, the book that followed The Manchurian Candidate, Condon makes a direct reference to Graves. In a long, convoluted passage on page 25 Condon reflects on “mistresses” and their relationship—a peripheral one, to the reader—to Graves’s writings about “Major Male” Deities and “Major Female” Deities. As Angel was published only a year after Candidate, there is no question, therefore, about Condon’s familiarity with the works of Robert Graves.^[19]

Condon’s familiarity with Graves is also in evidence on p. 127 of his first novel, The Oldest Confession. One of the characters in the book purchases a copy of Graves’ Antigua, Penny, Puce!

Works[edit]

All novels except as noted:

The Oldest Confession, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1958, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-8662; Longman, London, 1959, as The Happy Thieves
The Manchurian Candidate, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-8533
Some Angry Angel: A Mid-Century Faerie Tale, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8826
A Talent for Loving; or, The Great Cowboy Race, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:61-10467; later made into the film version A Talent for Loving(1969) for which Condon himself wrote the script
An Infinity of Mirrors, Random House, New York, 1964, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-17935
Any God Will Do, Random House, New York, 1964, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-21462
The Ecstasy Business, The Dial Press, New York, 1967, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-14467
Mile High, The Dial Press, New York, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-80497
The Vertical Smile (1971)
Arigato (1972)
The Mexican Stove (1973)—cookbook co-written with his daughter Wendy Bennett
And Then We Moved to Rossenarra: or, The Art of Emigrating, The Dial Press, New York, 1973, PS3553.0487z5—memoir
Winter Kills (1974)
The Star-Spangled Crunch (1974)
Money Is Love (1975)
The Whisper of the Axe (1976)
The Abandoned Woman (1977)
Death of a Politician (1978)
Bandicoot (1979)
The Entwining (1981)
Prizzi’s Honor (1982)
A Trembling upon Rome (1983)
Prizzi’s Family (1986)
Prizzi’s Glory (1988)
Emperor of America (1990)
The Final Addiction (1991)
The Venerable Bead (1992)
Prizzi’s Money (1994)

Films adapted from Condon novels[edit]

The Happy Thieves, from The Oldest Confession, 1961
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
A Talent for Loving, 1969
Winter Kills, 1979
Prizzi’s Honor, 1985
The Manchurian Candidate, 2004

Articles[edit]

“‘Manchurian Candidate’ in Dallas”. The Nation, December 28, 1963.

References[edit]

This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article “Richard Condon“, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL.

^ Locus, The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, from their May, 1996, issue #424, obituary of Condon, exact page unknown
^ Buckley, Tom. “THE LITERARY CONSPIRACIES OF RICHARD CONDON”, The New York Times, September 2, 1979. Accessed September 14, 2009.
^ Max E. Youngstein – Biography
^ Mile High, The Dial Press, New York, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-80497, page 156
^ The New York Times, Sunday, August 17, 2008, Sunday Opinion, “The Candidate We Still Don’t Know” at [1]
^ Time magazine, “Cheese”, March 4, 1971, at
^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c The New York Times, Wednesday, April 10, 1996, Obituaries, “Richard Condon, Political Novelist, Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Prizzi'” at [2]
^ Who’s Who in Spy Fiction, Donald McCormick, Sphere Books Ltd., London, 1977, page 64
^ “For Eddie West, power was all that mattered,” by Pete Hamill, The New York Times, August 31, 1969, at
^ Time Magazine, “Liederkranz”, a book review by John Skow, June 2, 1975
^ The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon, paperback edition, Signet, New York, November, 1962, fifth printing, page 261
^ An Infinity of Mirrors, by Richard Condon, paperback edition, Fawcett Crest, New York, September, 1965, page 36
^ “A Thriller of the Condon Class”, by Richard R. Lingeman, The New York Times, May 21, 1976, at [3]
^ Roger Sale, May 23, 1976, in The New York Times, at
^ Remembrance of Frank Heller,” by Ira Skutch, at
^ Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, Merriam-Webster, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts, 2004, ISBN 0-87779-807-9
^ Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, G. & C. Merriam Co., Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1943
^ “Has a local software engineer unmasked ‘The Manchurian Candidate’? Menlo Park woman says author Richard Condon plagiarized”, by Adair Lara, in the San Francisco Chronicle,October 4, 2003; the entire article can be read at [4]
^ Some Angry Angel: A Mid-Century Faerie Tale, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8826, page 25

[1] Locus, The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, from their May, 1996, issue #424, obituary of Condon, exact page unknown

[2] Buckley, Tom. “THE LITERARY CONSPIRACIES OF RICHARD CONDON”, The New York Times, September 2, 1979. Accessed September 14, 2009.

[3] Max E. Youngstein – Biography

[4] Mile High, The Dial Press, New York, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-80497, page 156

[5] The New York Times, Sunday, August 17, 2008, Sunday Opinion, “The Candidate We Still Don’t Know” at [1]

[6] Time magazine, “Cheese”, March 4, 1971, at

[NYT-7] Jump up to:^a ^b ^c The New York Times, Wednesday, April 10, 1996, Obituaries, “Richard Condon, Political Novelist, Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Prizzi'” at [2]

[8] Who’s Who in Spy Fiction, Donald McCormick, Sphere Books Ltd., London, 1977, page 64

[9] “For Eddie West, power was all that mattered,” by Pete Hamill, The New York Times, August 31, 1969, at

[10] Time Magazine, “Liederkranz”, a book review by John Skow, June 2, 1975

[11] The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon, paperback edition, Signet, New York, November, 1962, fifth printing, page 261

[12] An Infinity of Mirrors, by Richard Condon, paperback edition, Fawcett Crest, New York, September, 1965, page 36

[13] “A Thriller of the Condon Class”, by Richard R. Lingeman, The New York Times, May 21, 1976, at [3]

[14] Roger Sale, May 23, 1976, in The New York Times, at

[15] Remembrance of Frank Heller,” by Ira Skutch, at

[16] Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, Merriam-Webster, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts, 2004, ISBN 0-87779-807-9

[17] Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, G. & C. Merriam Co., Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1943

[18] “Has a local software engineer unmasked ‘The Manchurian Candidate’? Menlo Park woman says author Richard Condon plagiarized”, by Adair Lara, in the San Francisco Chronicle,October 4, 2003; the entire article can be read at [4]

[19] Some Angry Angel: A Mid-Century Faerie Tale, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8826, page 25

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6 Jul 2018	The UK Cabinet agrees the Chequers Statement, setting out a proposal on the future UK-EU relationship.^[303]
3-4 Jul 2018	41%	46%	13%	5%	1,641	YouGov	Online
25-26 Jun 2018	43%	46%	11%	3%	1,645	YouGov	Online
19-20 Jun 2018	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,663	YouGov	Online
18-19 Jun 2018	43%	44%	13%	1%	1,606	YouGov	Online
11-12 Jun 2018	43%	46%	12%	3%	1,638	YouGov	Online
4-5 Jun 2018	44%	44%	13%	0%	1,619	YouGov	Online
28-29 May 2018	40%	47%	13%	7%	1,670	YouGov	Online
20-21 May 2018	43%	44%	13%	1%	1,660	YouGov	Online
13-14 May 2018	44%	45%	12%	1%	1,634	YouGov	Online
8-9 May 2018	43%	45%	12%	2%	1,648	YouGov	Online
30 Apr-1 May 2018	42%	47%	11%	5%	1,585	YouGov	Online
24-25 Apr 2018	42%	45%	13%	3%	1,668	YouGov	Online
16-17 Apr 2018	42%	45%	13%	3%	1,631	YouGov	Online
9-10 Apr 2018	42%	46%	12%	4%	1,639	YouGov	Online
26-27 Mar 2018	42%	45%	13%	3%	1,659	YouGov	Online
5-6 Mar 2018	43%	45%	12%	2%	1,641	YouGov	Online
2 Mar 2018	Theresa May makes Mansion House speech, outlining the UK Government’s policy on the future UK-EU relationship.^[304]
26-27 Feb 2018	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,622	YouGov	Online
19-20 Feb 2018	42%	45%	12%	3%	1,650	YouGov	Online
12-13 Feb 2018	42%	46%	12%	4%	1,639	YouGov	Online
5-6 Feb 2018	43%	44%	13%	1%	2,000	YouGov	Online
28-29 Jan 2018	40%	46%	14%	6%	1,669	YouGov	Online
16-17 Jan 2018	45%	44%	12%	1%	1,672	YouGov	Online
7-8 Jan 2018	42%	46%	12%	4%	1,663	YouGov	Online
19-20 Dec 2017	42%	45%	12%	3%	1,610	YouGov	Online
15 Dec 2017	The European Council decides to proceed to the second phase of the Brexit negotiations.^[305]
10-11 Dec 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,680	YouGov	Online
4-5 Dec 2017	42%	45%	13%	3%	1,638	YouGov	Online
7-8 Nov 2017	42%	46%	12%	4%	2,012	YouGov	Online
23-24 Oct 2017	43%	45%	12%	2%	1,637	YouGov	Online
18-19 Oct 2017	42%	45%	14%	3%	1,648	YouGov	Online
10-11 Oct 2017	42%	47%	11%	5%	1,680	YouGov	Online
22-24 Sep 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,716	YouGov	Online
22 Sep 2017	Theresa May makes Florence speech, in an attempt to ‘unblock’ the Brexit negotiations.^[306]
30-31 Aug 2017	44%	44%	12%	0%	1,658	YouGov	Online
21-22 Aug 2017	43%	45%	11%	2%	1,664	YouGov	Online
31 Jul-1 Aug 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	1,665	YouGov	Online
18-19 Jul 2017	43%	43%	14%	0%	1,593	YouGov	Online
10-11 Jul 2017	45%	43%	12%	2%	1,700	YouGov	Online
21-22 Jun 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,670	YouGov	Online
19 Jun 2017	Brexit negotiations begin.^[307]
12-13 Jun 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,651	YouGov	Online
8 Jun 2017	United Kingdom general election, 2017
5-7 Jun 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	2,130	YouGov	Online
30-31 May 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,875	YouGov	Online
24-25 May 2017	46%	43%	11%	3%	2,052	YouGov	Online
16-17 May 2017	46%	43%	11%	3%	1,861	YouGov	Online
3-14 May 2017	45%	41%	14%	4%	1,952	GfK	Online
9-10 May 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,651	YouGov	Online
2-3 May 2017	46%	43%	11%	3%	2,066	YouGov	Online
25-26 Apr 2017	43%	45%	12%	2%	1,590	YouGov	Online
20-21 Apr 2017	44%	44%	12%	0%	1,590	YouGov	Online
18-19 Apr 2017	46%	43%	11%	3%	1,727	YouGov	Online
12-13 Apr 2017	45%	43%	12%	2%	2,069	YouGov	Online
5-6 Apr 2017	46%	42%	11%	4%	1,651	YouGov	Online
29 Mar 2017	The United Kingdom invokes Article 50.^[308]
26-27 Mar 2017	44%	43%	13%	1%	1,957	YouGov	Online
20-21 Mar 2017	44%	44%	12%	0%	1,627	YouGov	Online
1-15 Mar 2017	46%	41%	13%	5%	1,938	GfK	Online
13-14 Mar 2017	44%	42%	15%	2%	1,631	YouGov	Online
10-14 Mar 2017	49%	41%	10%	8%	2,003	Opinium	Online
27-28 Feb 2017	45%	44%	11%	1%	1,666	YouGov	Online
21-22 Feb 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	2,060	YouGov	Online
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17-18 Jan 2017	46%	42%	12%	4%	1,654	YouGov	Online
17 Jan 2017	Theresa May makes Lancaster House speech, setting out the UK Government’s negotiating priorities.^[309]
9-12 Jan 2017	52%	39%	9%	13%	2,005	Opinium	Online
9-10 Jan 2017	46%	42%	12%	4%	1,660	YouGov	Online
3-4 Jan 2017	45%	44%	11%	1%	1,740	YouGov	Online
18-19 Dec 2016	44%	44%	12%	0%	1,595	YouGov	Online
4-5 Dec 2016	44%	42%	14%	2%	1,667	YouGov	Online
28-29 Nov 2016	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,624	YouGov	Online
14-15 Nov 2016	46%	43%	11%	3%	1,717	YouGov	Online
19-20 Oct 2016	45%	44%	11%	1%	1,608	YouGov	Online
11-12 Oct 2016	45%	44%	11%	1%	1,669	YouGov	Online
2 Oct 2016	Theresa May makes Conservative Party Conference speech, announcing her intention to invoke Article 50 by 31 March 2017.^[310]
13-14 Sep 2016	46%	44%	10%	2%	1,732	YouGov	Online
30-31 Aug 2016	47%	44%	9%	3%	1,687	YouGov	Online
22-23 Aug 2016	45%	43%	12%	2%	1,660	YouGov	Online
16-17 Aug 2016	46%	43%	11%	3%	1,677	YouGov	Online
8-9 Aug 2016	45%	44%	12%	1%	1,692	YouGov	Online
1-2 Aug 2016	46%	42%	12%	4%	1,722	YouGov	Online
13 Jul 2016	Theresa May becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.^[311]
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Date(s) conducted	Remain	Leave	Neither	Lead	Sample	Conducted by	Polling type
15 Dec 2017	The European Council decides to proceed to the second phase of the Brexit negotiations.^[312]
8-10 Dec 2017	46%	43%	12%	3%	2,006	ICM	Online
5-8 Dec 2017	51%	41%	8%	10%	1,509	BMG Research	Online
30 Nov-1 Dec 2017	49%	46%	6%	3%	1,003	Survation	Online
14-17 Nov 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	1,509	BMG Research	Online
18-24 Oct 2017	44%	40%	16%	4%	1,648	YouGov	Online
19-20 Oct 2017	46%	45%	9%	1%	1,005	Opinium	Online
17-20 Oct 2017	47%	44%	8%	3%	1,506	BMG Research	Online
4-5 Oct 2017	49%	45%	6%	4%	2,047	Survation	Online
23 Sep 2017	46%	47%	6%	1%	1,174	Survation	Online
22 Sep 2017	Theresa May makes Florence speech, in an attempt to ‘unblock’ the Brexit negotiations.^[313]
19-22 Sep 2017	45%	44%	12%	1%	2,004	Opinium	Online
15-20 Sep 2017	47%	47%	5%	0%	1,614	Survation	Online
12-15 Sep 2017	47%	43%	10%	4%	1,447	BMG Research	Online
12-15 Sep 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	2,009	Opinium	Online
15-18 Aug 2017	47%	44%	9%	3%	2,006	Opinium	Online
8-11 Aug 2017	46%	45%	9%	1%	1,512	BMG Research	Online
23-24 Jul 2017	46%	43%	11%	3%	1,609	YouGov	Online
14-15 Jul 2017	47%	48%	5%	1%	1,024	Survation	Online
11-14 Jul 2017	46%	45%	9%	1%	1,518	BMG Research	Online
28-30 Jun 2017	52%	44%	5%	8%	1,017	Survation	Telephone
23-30 Jun 2017	46%	42%	13%	4%	1,661	YouGov	Online
16-21 Jun 2017	46%	50%	4%	4%	5,481	Panelbase	Online
19 Jun 2017	Brexit negotiations begin.^[314]
16-17 Jun 2017	50%	48%	3%	2%	1,005	Survation	Online
10 Jun 2017	48%	46%	6%	2%	1,036	Survation	Online
8 Jun 2017	United Kingdom general election, 2017
2-7 Jun 2017	46%	51%	3%	5%	3,018	Panelbase	Online
2-5 Jun 2017	47%	44%	9%	3%	1,503	BMG Research	Online
26 May-1 Jun 2017	47%	49%	4%	2%	1,224	Panelbase	Online
25-30 May 2017	35%	38%	27%	3%	1,199	Kantar TNS	Online
19-22 May 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	1,499	BMG Research	Online
12-15 May 2017	47%	50%	3%	3%	1,026	Panelbase	Online
5-9 May 2017	47%	49%	4%	2%	1,027	Panelbase	Online
28 Apr-2 May 2017	48%	49%	3%	1%	1,034	Panelbase	Online
21-24 Apr 2017	45%	45%	10%	0%	1,552	BMG Research	Online
20-24 Apr 2017	46%	50%	4%	4%	1,026	Panelbase	Online
28-31 Mar 2017	46%	46%	8%	0%	1,576	BMG Research	Online
23-30 Mar 2017	44%	43%	14%	1%	1,643	YouGov	Online
29 Mar 2017	The United Kingdom invokes Article 50.^[315]
21-24 Feb 2017	45%	46%	9%	1%	1,543	BMG Research	Online
19-24 Jan 2017	43%	44%	13%	1%	1,643	YouGov	Online
17 Jan 2017	Theresa May makes Lancaster House speech, setting out the UK Government’s negotiating priorities.^[316]
6-9 Jan 2017	44%	45%	11%	1%	1,520	BMG Research	Online
14-21 Dec 2016	44%	43%	13%	1%	1,569	YouGov	Online
6-9 Dec 2016	43%	46%	11%	3%	1,532	BMG Research	Online
25-27 Nov 2016	46%	47%	6%	1%	2,035	ComRes	Online
22-25 Nov 2016	43%	43%	14%	0%	1,523	BMG Research	Online
20-25 Oct 2016	44%	43%	13%	1%	1,631	YouGov	Online
19-24 Oct 2016	45%	43%	12%	2%	1,546	BMG Research	Online
10-12 Oct 2016	44%	44%	12%	0%	1,002	Survation	Online
2 Oct 2016	Theresa May makes Conservative Party Conference speech, announcing her intention to invoke Article 50 by 31 March 2017.^[317]
16-20 Sep 2016	42%	46%	11%	4%	1,601	YouGov	Online
31 Aug-9 Sep 2016	43%	45%	13%	2%	1,711	YouGov	Online
20-27 Jul 2016	43%	44%	13%	1%	1,673	YouGov	Online
13 Jul 2016	Theresa May becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.^[318]
3-4 Jul 2016	45%	45%	10%	0%	1,820	YouGov	Online
29-30 Jun 2016	48%	42%	9%	6%	2,006	Opinium	Online
29-30 Jun 2016	45%	37%	19%	8%	1,017	BMG Research	Online
23 Jun 2016	United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
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Richard Condon
Born	Richard Thomas Condon March 18, 1915 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1996 (aged 81) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Fiction

Prizzi’s Honor	(1982)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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The Oldest Confession	(1958)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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Some Angry Angel	(1960)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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Any God Will Do	(1966)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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Money is Love	(1975)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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The Abandoned Woman	(1977)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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Death of A Politician	(1978)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
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A Trembling Upon Rome	(1983)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Emperor of America	(1990)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Final Addiction	(1991)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Venerable Bead	(1992)	Hardcover Paperback Kindle

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Early life[edit]

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