E.J. Barnes just wrote historical fiction about the life of John Maynard Keynes, her novel is called Mr. Keynes’ Revolution.
John Maynard Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots.
E.J. Barnes studied economics at the University of Cambridge and political science at the University of Colorado, before becoming a professional writer. Mr. Keynes’ Revolution is her first novel. Her writing was commended in the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize and won an Arts Council Writer’s Award.
Her interest in the life and work of John Maynard Keynes led her to write a film script and stage play before writing the first novel about his life.
Mr. Keynes’ Revolution: A Novel
When the brilliant and mercurial Maynard Keynes walks out on the Paris Peace Conference, he seems destined for obscurity. But in the crisis-ridden 1920s, he soon finds himself back on the public stage. A man of fierce intelligence and hidden susceptibilities, he is not afraid to speak the truth to a political elite blindly determined to push the world to the brink of collapse.
Dancer Lydia Lopokova has fled the revolution and is now seeking her own personal salvation. The last thing she expects is a life-changing encounter with a Bohemian economist.
Based on the true story of John Maynard Keynes, ground-breaking economist, controversial intellectual, government adviser, financial speculator, and Bloomsbury Group member, and one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century.
There have been many biographies of the founder of Keynesian Economics, but this is the first time historical fiction has put his life at the center stage. It combines the battle of the gold standard with the Russian ballet, Bohemians with central bankers, the forbidden gay world of 1920s London with the risks of currency speculation … Virginia Woolf and Winston Churchill … economic crisis and political disaster … and a one-man crusade to save capitalism from disaster.
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