Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) (born Ford Hermann Hueffer) was an English poet, writer, novelist, and editor whose journals, THE ENGLISH REVIEW and THE TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Born to a German father and English mother, Ford changed his "too German" name shortly after the first World War. His literary career spanned the 1890s to the 1930s, but is best known for his historical romances (THE FIFTH QUEEN TRILOGY) and THE GOOD SOLDIER.