Background
Vansittart, Peter was born on August 27, 1920 in Bedford, England. Son of Edward Morris and Mignon Therese Vansittart.
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Vansittart, Peter was born on August 27, 1920 in Bedford, England. Son of Edward Morris and Mignon Therese Vansittart.
Peter Vansittart was educated at Marlborough House School, Haileybury College and Worcester College, Oxford, although he spent only a year at Oxford and did not graduate.
He had 50 novels published between 1942 and 2008. He also wrote historical studies, memoirs, stories for children and three anthologies: Voices from the Great War (his most popular book), Voices 1870-1914 and Voices of the Revolution. He received an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2008 for his services to literature.
He was a distant cousin of Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1930 and 1938.
He worked as a schoolteacher at progressive schools — most notably Burgess Hill School, Hampstead — for 25 years before becoming a full-time writer He wrote a novel about his time as a schoolteacher called Broken Canes.
This inspired his novel Landlord. After living in London for much of his life, Vansittart moved to Suffolk to a house inherited from his mother.
He died on October 4, 2008 at Ipswich Hospital aged 88.
Vansittart’s novels span eras from 2000 British Columbia to AD 1986. Foreign several decades he was acclaimed as England’s greatest living historical novelist. He said of his work, “My novels have been appreciated, if not always enjoyed, more by critics than the reading public, which shows no sign of enjoying them at all.
This must be partly due to my obsession with language and speculation at the expense of narrative, however much I relish narrative in others”
He said, “I was long impressed by the woeful distinction between the historical Macbeth and Shakespeare"s: by the swift transformation of East.M. Forster"s very English Mistress
Moore into an Indian goddess. Such phenomena relate very immediately to my own work, in which myth can be all too real, and the real degenerate into fantasy.”
Secret Protocols, his last novel (and planned as such), is set in World World War II and was published in 2007.
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Married Jacqueline Goldsmith (divorced).