Constantine Fitzgibbon was born in the United States in 1919. He was raised and educated in France before moving to England.His father was Irish, his mother American. Son of Commander Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon, RN, and Georgette Folsom, Lenox, Mass, USA. Married 1967, Marjorie (née Steele);(by a previous marriage to Marion (née Gutmann) one son, b 1961). He was half-brother of Louis Fitzgibbon, author of Katyn.one daughter named Oonagh born February 6 1968 whom the book teddy in the tree was written for in 1977; The family resided in killiney in south county dublin.

Wellington College; University of Munich; University of Paris. Fitzgibbon attended Exeter College, Oxford with a modern languages scholarship but left without a degree just before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Fitzgibbon served in the British Army until 1942 before transferring to the United States Army as a staff officer at military intelligence. He worked as a schoolmaster for a short time after the war in Bermuda, at Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda, 1946—47; then independent writer. It was here he wrote his first two novels. He lived in Italy and spent many years in England before moving to Ireland in 1965.

Constantine Fitzgibbon has written a number of books including nine novels. One of the recurring subjects in his work was Nazi Germany.

Historian, Journalist and Novelist expert. Served War of 1939-45, British Army (Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry), 1939—42; US Army, 1942-46. Constantine FitzGibbon said he was offered, but refused, a job with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) when it was created following World War II.His play, The Devil at Work was produced by the Abbey in 1971.

FitzGibbon was a member of the Council of the Irish Academy of Letters and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Guggenheim Fellow. He later became an Irish citizen and lived in County Dublin.

• The Arabian Bird (1949)
• The Iron Hoop (1950)
• Dear Emily (1952)
• Miss Finnigan's Fault (1953)
• Norman Douglas (1953)
• The Holiday (1953)
• The Little Tour (1954)
• The Shirt of Nessus (1955)
• In Love and War (1956)
• The Blitz (1957)
• Paradise Lost and More (1959)
• Watcher in Florence (1959) The Vine Press
• When the Kissing had to Stop (1960) new edition (posthumous), (1989)
• Adultery Under Arms (1962)
• Going to the River (1963)
• Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena (1963)
• The Life of Dylan Thomas (1965 ed.)
• Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas (1966 ed.)
• Through the Minefield (1967)
• Denazification (1969)
• High Heroic (a novel about the life of Michael Collins) (1969)
• Out of the Lion's Paw (1969)
• London's Burning (1970)
• Red Hand: The Ulster Colony (1971)
• The Devil at Work (1971) (play)
• A Concise History of Germany (1972)
• In the Bunker (1973)
• The Life and Times of Eamon de Valera (1973)
• The Golden Age (1976)
• Secret Intelligence (1976)
• Man in Aspic (1977)
• Teddy in the Tree (1977)
• Drink (1979)
• The Rat Report (1980)
• The Irish in Ireland (1982)
• and trans from French, German and Italian. Translator of the Rudolf Höß "autobiography". Contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica, newspapers and periodicals in Britain, America and elsewhere

When the Kissing Had to Stop

This novel was filmed 1962, directed by Bill Hitchcock and starring Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan and Douglas Wilmer. Error - - New York Times