Honor Tracy

Who was Honor Tracy?

Honor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield, who was a British writer, born at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Tracy joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force from 1939 to 1941, working in the intelligence department, then she was attached to the Ministry of Information, from 1941 to 1945, as a Japanese specialist. She worked for The Observer newspaper as a columnist and as a long-time foreign correspondent. She wrote also for the Sunday Times and for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirise British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best-known novels are The Straight and Narrow Path, The Quiet End of Evening, and The Ballad of Castle Reef. Her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille.

She settled in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland and died in 1989 in Oxford, England.