When in 1941, many émigré authors, including
Thomas Mann and
Stefan Zweig, gathered in London for a meeting of the international writers' club
PEN, under the presidency of
H. G. Wells, Grindea was inspired to start an international literary journal. To avoid wartime restrictions on new publications, he revived
ADAM in September that year. His eminent associates and contributors included
Cyril Connolly,
Stephen Spender,
J. B. Priestley (who were all among the several members of
ADAMs editorial board)
T. S. Eliot and
George D. Painter. Grindea's personal library (housed at the
Foyles Special Collections Library at the
Maughan Library) includes signed copies of works by
Arthur Koestler,
André Gide,
Robert Graves,
Bertrand Russell,
Tristan Tzara,
Patrick Moore and
Graham Greene and many others. As
David Gascoyne noted: "It was in fact obvious, in the mid-forties, to any educated reader, that Adam's only rival was the then recently defunct
Criterion, edited by T S Eliot." Grindea edited and, with subsidies, financed
ADAM International Review (Art, Drama, Arcitecture, and Music) from his London home at Emperor's Gate in
Kensington, London. Over the decades, ADAM featured an range of subjects in the magazine, and attracted a prominant list of unpaid contributors (in both English and French), who at various times included
George Bernard Shaw,
Cecil Day-Lewis,
W. H. Auden,
E. M. Forster,
Anthony Powell,
Lawrence Durrell,
Winston Churchill,
Max Beerbohm,
François Mauriac and
Samuel Beckett. Among writers who made their debut in
ADAM are
Maureen Duffy and
Wolf Mankowitz, and others Grindea enlisted as sometime workers include
Margaret Busby (who on leaving university was briefly his editorial assistant) and
Erik de Mauny, who recalled: "I am sure that I am not the only one among his friends to have been telephoned late at night with urgent requests for help and advice with the next number of Adam." At the time of Grindea's death aged 86, in London in 1995, he was working on the 500th edition of
ADAM. ==Awards==