George Moore (novelist)

George Moore
George Moore by Edouard Manet, 1879
Born	George Augustus Moore (1852-02-24)24 February 1852 Moore Hall, County Mayo, Ireland
Died	21 January 1933(1933-01-21) (aged 80) London, England
Resting place	Castle Island, County Mayo, Ireland
Occupation	short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Language	English
Alma mater	National Art Training School
Period	1878–1933
Literary movement	Celtic Revival
Notable works	Confessions of a Young Man, Esther Waters
Relatives	John Moore (granduncle) Maurice George Moore

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola.^[1] His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann,^[2] and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.