Background
He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919 and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and later at University College Nottingham.
(Henry Fairfax's life is one of orderly routine: accountin...)
Henry Fairfax's life is one of orderly routine: accounting and management by day, the writing of radio plays by night, and a circle of friends. But only a few years ago he had lived through a painful divorce after nine years. And very early in the narrative, surprised by a sudden attack in the night, Fairfax stops a would-be mugger with a heavy right-hand blow. But what is he to think when Laura, now an independent, successful businesswoman, suggests that they marry again? They had parted loathing each other. And yet it possible that Henry's heart, like the mugger, may surprise him. Stanley Middleton's novel treats once more of the choices that seemingly comfortable people have to make. The issues he raises speak to the human condition, and make moving drama of our daily lives.
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(David and Mary Blackwell are content with their marriage ...)
David and Mary Blackwell are content with their marriage and their lives–his as a teacher and a gifted amateur cellist, hers as a housewife and exceptionally talented singer. But when a formidable opera star gives Mary a chance to test herself in an American opera production, everything they take for granted is called into question. Like Handel's Semele, the woman who seeks to emulate the gods, Mary Blackwell discovers new perceptions and new powers; and with success comes temptation. And, beset with troubles in England, for David, too, life begins to trace a different pattern. The pressure on their marriage, the fragility of love, the hopes and possibilities of both partners are dramatized in a narrative of great assurance and subtlety.
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He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919 and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and later at University College Nottingham.
Bachelor, London University, 1940. Master of Education, Nottingham University, 1952. Master of Arts (honorary), Nottingham University, 1975.
M.Univ. (honorary), Open University, 1995. Doctor of Letters (honorary), De Montfort University, 1998.
Middleton started writing at university and in 1958 published A Short Answer. Alongside his work as an author he taught English at High Pavement Grammar School for many years. In 2008 Her Three Wise Men was published, his 44th novel and the last to be published during his lifetime.
He was also a fine water colourist and contributed his own artwork to the covers of the 1994 novel Catalysts and the festschrift, Stanley Middleton At Eighty.
In 2006, a reporter for The Sunday Times sent the first chapters of Holiday to a number of publishers and literary agents as a journalistic stunt. Almost all rejected lieutenant
The actor Peter Bowles was taught by Stanley Middleton while a pupil at High Pavement. In 1980 when Bowles was the subject of the popular television programme This Is Your, Stanley Middleton appeared as a guest on the programme.
Middleton was married to Margaret Welch from 1951 until his death.
The couple had two daughters, Penny and Sarah. Towards the end of his life he suffered from cancer, and died in a nursing home on 25 July 2009, one week before his 90th birthday. lieutenant has been revealed that Middleton refused an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1979.
This came to light following a Freedom of information request by the British Broadcasting Corporation. He did not feel that he should be honoured simply for doing what he regarded as his job.
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With Royal Artillery and Atomic Energy Commission, 1940-1946.
Married Margaret Shirley Welch, December 22, 1951. Children: Penelope Jane, Sarah Ursula Judith.