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Treglown, Jeremy Dickinson was born on May 24, 1946. Son of Geoffrey and Beryl Treglown.
(Provides an incisive, unauthorized biography of one of th...)
Provides an incisive, unauthorized biography of one of the world's most popular authors, discussing his youth, his early life as a wartime propagandist, his tormented marriage to actress Patricia Neal, his writing, and more. 15,000 first printing.
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As author and man, Roald Dahl still divides opinion. He was a war hero and a spy, a connoisseur and a philanthropist, a family man who had to confront an appalling succession of tragedies. But he was also a fantasist, a bully and a self-publicizing troublemaker who attracted accusations of racism and misogyny. Drawing on interviews and extensive correspondence, this book tells the story of Dahl's adventurous life, tracing the author's literary career from its beginnings in wartime propaganda to his later commercial success.
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(At the time of his death in November 1990, Roald Dahl ran...)
At the time of his death in November 1990, Roald Dahl ranked among the most celebrated, influential and controversial children's authors of all time. But, like his fiction, his personality was singular, forceful and provocative. This biography shows Dahl in his various roles as adventurer, gambler, connoisseur, philanthropist and troublemaker; as a devoted but frequently unfaithful husband; and as a fond, demanding, but sometimes chilly parent.
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(Henry Green led a double life. As Henry Yorke, a descenda...)
Henry Green led a double life. As Henry Yorke, a descendant of the earl of Hardwicke and Baron Leconfield, he was a wealthy aristocrat, with a family fortune and an engineering plant in the British Midlands. As Henry Green (the pseudonym he settled on after trying out Henry Browne), he wrote nine of our century's most original novels, including Living, Party Going, Caught, and Loving all of which, with daringly experimental techniques, capture the psychological truths of ordinary life in dramatic, sometimes poignant, and often hilarious ways. Green also formed friendships and rivalries with many of his time's leading literary figures, including Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, Eudora Welty and Terry Southern. And he led an extravagantly messy personal life. Jeremy Treglown, the highly praised biographer of Roald Dahl, discusses Green's novels in close connection with his life his unusual camaraderie with factory workers, his sympathy for servants, his ambivalence about his peers, his drinking, and his extramarital affairs. Treglown also shows how Green's portrayal of everyday uncertainties mirrored his efforts to understand his weaknesses and the chaotic conduct of his life efforts whose literary results, John Updike has said, bring the rectangle of the printed page alive like little else in English fiction of this century.
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(This dazzling new biography of the “English Chekhov”, who...)
This dazzling new biography of the “English Chekhov”, who in many ways embodied literary life in the 20th century, analyzes the art and power of Pritchett’s writings, drawing on hitherto unpublished letters and diaries to bring him to life.
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Treglown, Jeremy Dickinson was born on May 24, 1946. Son of Geoffrey and Beryl Treglown.
Master of Arts, BLitt, Oxford University, England. Doctor of Philosophy, University London.
Lecturer Lincoln College, Oxford University, 1974-1977, University College London, 1977-1980. Assistant editor The Times Literary Supplement, London, 1980-1982, editor, 1982-1990. Honorary research fellow University College London, since 1991.
Ferris professor Princeton University, 1992. Professor English and comparative literature University Warwick, since 1993. Visiting fellow All Souls College, 1986.
Mellon visiting associate California Institute of Technology, 1988. Jackson Brothers fellow Beinecke Library., Yale University, 1999, Leverhulme research fellow, 2001—2003. Margaret and Herman Sokol fellow Center for Scholars and Writers New York Public Library., New York City, 2002—2003.
(This dazzling new biography of the “English Chekhov”, who...)
(Provides an incisive, unauthorized biography of one of th...)
(At the time of his death in November 1990, Roald Dahl ran...)
(As author and man, Roald Dahl still divides opinion. He w...)
(Henry Green led a double life. As Henry Yorke, a descenda...)
Author: Roald Dahl, A Biography, 1994, Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, 2000, V. S. Pritchett: A Working Life, 2004. Editor: The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1980, Spirit of Wit: Reconsider. Of Rochester, 1982, The Lantern-Bearers and other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1988.
Editor: (with B. Bennett) Grub St. and the Ivory Tower: Literature Journalism and Literature Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet, 1998. Editor: (with D. McVea) The TLS Centenary Archive, 2000. Contributing editor: Grand St., 1990-1998.
Member editorial board: Liber, A European Review of Books, 1988-1990. Contributor to Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Indiana on Sunday, New York.
Fellow Royal Society Literature (member council 1989-1995), Royal Society Arts, English Association.
Married Rona Bower, 1970 (divorced 1982). 3 children; Married Holly Urquhart Eley, 1984.