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The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most significant novelists

About the Author

Peter Parker is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos (1987) and a highly acclaimed biography of J.R. Ackerley (1989). He edited The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1994) and The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers (1995), and is an associate editor of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). He writes for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and lives in London's East End.