Adam de Hegedus

Adam de Hegedus (14 December 1906–October 1955) was a Hungarian-British writer best known for his novels published under the pseudonym Rodney Garland.

Early life Adam Martin de Hegedus was born in Budapest on 14 December 1906. His father was an official at the Hungarian treasury, who rose to a high position and retired with a title of peerage. He wrote in his biographical work Don't Keep the Vanman Waiting (1944), "It was England's mental climate that had proved so all absorbing, so conquering, all powerful, compelling, that it made me feel at home at once". De Hegedus's first book, the non-fiction work Hungarian Background, was published in 1937. and the first work of fiction to tackle the theme of male homosexuality in 1950s Britain. A final novel, The Struggle with the Angels, was published posthumously by Allan Wingate in 1956.

On 9 October 1955, De Hegedus collapsed in London. He was taken to Westminster Hospital where he died, aged 48. According to his death certificate, the cause of death was acute adrenal failure. In A Way of Life, Wildeblood claimed that he went through De Hegedus's flat after his death and destroyed his personal correspondence.

Works As Adam de Hegedus "The Golden Cock" (1934), short story in Lovat Dickson's Magazine Hungarian Background (1937), non-fiction Don't Keep the Vanman Waiting (1944), non-fiction Rehearsal Under the Moon (1946), novel The State of the World (1946), non-fiction Patriotism or Peace? (1947), non-fiction Strangers Here Ourselves (1949), non-fiction Home and Away (1951), non-fiction The Struggle with the Angels (1956), novel

As Rodney Garland The Heart in Exile (1953), novel The Troubled Midnight (1954), novel