In recent years, his books had not been major factors in the marketplace, and he did not turn out any of the best-sellers that had once captivated readers. He had lived in Blue Hills, Me., and in Greenwich and New Canaan, Conn., before moving to Switzerland. Cronin had worked in the British Ministry of Information, spending several years in the United States. Cronin's death was made known yesterday after a private Roman Catholic service at the Notre Dame Church in Vevey that was attended by his three sons.īorn in Cardoss, Dumbarton, on July 19, 1896, he became an American citizen after World War II. Cronin, a Scottish physician whose novels, including ''Hatter's Castle,'' ''The Citadel'' and ''The Keys of the Kingdom,'' made him one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world, died at the age of 84 on Tuesday in a clinic in the village of Glion, near Montreux, Switzerland, where he had lived for the last 25 years.
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