Ford Madox Ford, originally named Ford Hermann Hueffer, was a prolific English novelist, poet, critic, and editor, whose literary work left a lasting imprint on modernist writing. Born on December 17, 1873 in Merton, Surrey, Ford came from a background enriched with music and literature; his father was a music critic and his grandfather the famed Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. He changed...