Molly Izzard was the co-author of the book Smelling The Breezes, published in 1959, about a camping trek she and her family took in the High Lebanon mountains.
13 Facts About Molly Izzard
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Molly Izzard's final work was a controversial biography of the explorer Freya Stark, published in 1993.
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Molly Izzard's father was of Anglo-Indian stock, and exited Calcutta to work on a British Guiana sugar plantation.
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Molly Izzard did not feel comfortable in such an environment and moved to Hungary to live with an aristocratic count and his family.
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Molly Izzard served under Sefton Delmer in the propaganda agency, the Political Warfare Executive.
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Molly Izzard co-authored her first book, Smelling The Breezes, with her husband Ralph Izzard in 1959, and was republished as A Walk in the Mountains in the United States the following year.
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Molly Izzard reported on the Partition of India, bringing up her family amongst the Egyptian revolution of 1952, and life in British Cyprus in 1960, as it transitioned to an independent state.
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In 1969, Molly Izzard authored A Life of Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan on a commission from her publishers.
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Ten years later, Molly Izzard wrote, The Gulf: Arabian Western Approaches, which was a first-hand account of the rise of the nation-states Bahrain, Kuwait and the Emirates set against Saudi Arabia's restrictive Wahhabism.
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Molly Izzard was asked by her publishers John Murray to write a biography on the explorer Freya Stark.
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Molly Izzard met Stark in the small Italian town of Asolo and noticed that accounts of her life were fabricated.
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Molly Izzard married Ralph Izzard, a Daily Mail Middle East correspondent, circa 1948 in Delhi until he died in 1992.
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On 4 February 2004, Molly Izzard died in Royal Tunbridge Wells in England.