David John Caute (born 16 December 1936) is a British author, journalist and historian. An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ...

Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College and St Antony's College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in 1965. From 1966 Caute held various, mostly temporary, academic positions. He was Literary Editor of the New Statesman 1979-80 The Edinburgh Academy The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school. ... College name Wadham College Named after Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham Established 1610 Sister College Christs College Warden Sir Neil Chalmers JCR President Ben Jasper Undergraduates 460 MCR President David Patrikarakos Graduates 180 Homepage Boatclub Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... St Antonys College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... All Souls College (in full: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...

Works

• At Fever Pitch, London: Deutsch, 1959; New York: Pantheon, 1959.
• Comrade Jacob, London: Deutsch, 1961; New York: Pantheon, 1962.
• Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914-1960, London: Deutsch, 1964; New York: Macmillan, 1964.
• The Left in Europe Since 1789, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
• The Decline of the West: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1966; New York: Macmillan, 1966.
• The Essential Writings of Karl Marx, edited, with an introduction, by Caute. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967; New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Fanon, London: Fontana, 1970; as Frantz Fanon, New York: Viking, 1970.
• The Demonstration: A Play, London: Deutsch, 1970.
• The Occupation: A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
• The Illusion: An Essay on Politics, Theatre and the Novel, London: Deutsch, 1971; New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
• The Fellow-Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973; New York: Macmillan, 1973; revised edition, as The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Collisions: Essays and Reviews, London: Quartet Books, 1974.
• Cuba, Yes?, London: Secker & Warbung, 1974; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
• The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower, London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
• The Baby-Sitters, as John Salisbury. London: Secker & Warburg, 1978; New York: Antheneum, 1978; republished as The Hour Before Midnight, New York: Dell, 1980.
• Moscow Gold, as John Salisbury. London: Futura, 1980.
• Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, London: Allen Lane, 1983; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1983.
• The K-Factor: A Novel, London: Joseph, 1983.
• News from Nowhere, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State, London: Hamilton, 1986.
• Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades, London: Hamilton, 1988; as The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
• Veronica; or, The Two Nations, London: Hamilton, 1989; New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
• The Women's Hour, London: Paladin (HarperCollins), 1991.
• Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life, London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Dr. Orwell and Mr. Blair: A Novel, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
• Fatima's Scarf, London: Totterdown Books, 1998.
• The Dancer Defects, Oxford University Press, 2003