James Broom Lynne

James William Broom-Lynne (31 October 1916 – 1 December 1995) was an English artist-designer, novelist (sometimes under the pseudonym of James Quartermain) and playwright who was notable for his illustrations for book jackets.

Life Islington-born Broom-Lynne was the son of James William Broom, a master bookbinder and Esther (née Slaughter). As a child he attended Eden Grove and St. Aloysius schools, later going on to Saint Martin's Schools of Art. In 1948 he married Catherine Joan Redmore with whom he had two daughters (Victoria and Kate) and one son (Luke). He also had one previous daughter, Gale (born 1940) with Joan Mary Murray (later the mother of novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán).

Upon his death in 1995 he was cremated and his ashes laid to rest in the graveyard of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK, where he and his wife Catherine had lived for over 40 years.

During World War II Broom-Lynne served as a warden with the Civil Defence Service in Westminster (1940–1945). It was at this time that he may have first exhibited his work to the general public. Both The West London Press and Chelsea News and The Hampstead News and Golders Green Gazette record artworks credited to Broom-Lynne in exhibitions of civil defence artists in 1941 and 1942 respectively. + Year Exhibition Artwork