Full Name: Ford Madox Ford
Birth Name: Ford Hermann Hueffer
Pen Name: Ford Madox Hueffer

Father: Francis Hueffer
Mother: Catherine Madox Brown
Siblings: Oliver Madox Hueffer, Juliet
Wife: Elsie Martindale (m. 1894)
Daughter: Katherine (1897-1984), Christina (1900-78)

Date of Birth: December 17, 1873
Birth Place: Merton, Surrey, England
Date of Death: June 26, 1939 (aged 65)
Death Place: Deauville, France
Cause of Death: Unspecified

Remains: Buried, Deauville, France
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Pretoria House School, Folkstone, University College School, London
Occupation: Writer (Novelist) and Publisher
Nationality: British (England)
Military Service: British Army

Books: 
  • The Good Soldier (1915)
  • Parade's End (1924–28)
  • The Fifth Queen (1906–08)
  • No More Parades (1925)
  • The Soul of London
  • Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911) 
  • Etc.
English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature, Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) is best known for his novel The Good Soldier and Parade's End. His born name was Ford Madox Hueffer. In 1919 changed his born name to Ford Madox Ford. He published his first book, The Brown Owl (1891) when he was only eighteen. This was followed by the novel, The Shifting of Fire (1892). In 1894 Ford married Elsie Martindale. They left London, and settled in Bonnington, on the Romney Marsh; in 1901 they moved to the Bungalow, Winchelsea. He met Joseph Conrad and they co-authored several works including The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). After his return to England, Ford began at last to find success. He spent more time in London, and his study The Soul of London (1905) was 'boomed' in the papers. This was followed by two other volumes making up a trilogy about England and the English (1907).

In 1908 Hueffer founded The English Review and over the next 15 months he published the work of Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and William Butler Yeats, and gave debuts to Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. In 1914, the outbreak of the First World War. Ford joined the army in 1915, serving as an officer in the Welch Regiment. He was sent to France in July 1916 as a junior officer in the 38th Infantry Brigade. In 1924, he initiated The Transatlantic Review, a journal with great influence on modern literature. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of Paris, he befriended James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Jean Rhys. In 1922, he moved to Paris where he founded The Transatlantic Review. In the 1930s Ford published two volumes of autobiography, Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). Ford Madox Ford died in 1939.