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John Drinkwater was born on June 1, 1882 at Leytonstone, England. He was the son of an actor Albert Edwin Drinkwater and Annie Beck.
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John Drinkwater was born on June 1, 1882 at Leytonstone, England. He was the son of an actor Albert Edwin Drinkwater and Annie Beck.
John attended the City of Oxford School until he was 15 years old, when he was given employment by an insurance company and later went to Birmingham.
There in 1903 he published at his own expense his first volume, Poems. The next year he met Barry Jackson, whom he helped to found the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1907. Drinkwater had been writing steadily meanwhile, and in 1909 he left the insurance business to devote himself to writing. His connection with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in various capacities lasted until 1920. He was a prolific writer, and before his death had published 24 volumes of poetry and 19 plays, of which the most successful were the chronicle play Abraham Lincoln (1918) and the comedy Bird in Hand (1928). He was the author also of numerous biographies, two volumes of autobiography, and many works of criticism.
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John was married to Daisy Kennedy, the ex-wife of Benno Moiseiwitsch.