Humphrey Carpenter's other biographies include "The Life of Ezra Pound", "Tolkien: A Biography", "Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography", "WH Auden" and "Robert Runcie".
Humphrey Carpenter wrote many biographies and won the Somerset Maugham Award, the E.M. Forster Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and was a runner-up for the Whitbread Prize for biography. He died in 2005.
a fascinating portrait - The Times Literary SupplementCarpenter has made a very good job, scholarly and entertaining, of turning the adventures of one of Britain's strangest ever talents into a reliable narrative - WordIn this definitive biography, Humphrey Carpenter demonstrates how Milligan was his own worst enemy - a brilliant, impulsive, impatient man who never quite belonged to the human race ... The beauty of Carpenter's biography is that this man of contradictions is laid before us in all his crazy glory. - Sunday ExpressThis experienced and genial biographer settles down into his familiar, businesslike style, unafraid of addressing the less savoury aspects of his subject. - ObserverThis biography takes us at a cracking pace through Milligan's war service, the Goon Show years, his literary career, and his attempts, largely unsuccessful, to repeat the mass appeal of The Goons ... It is all part of a complex personality that Carpenter has done well to grapple into a readable biography. - The Sunday TimesHumphrey Carpenter chronicles all his (Spike's) antisocial and depressive behaviour with tremendous diligence. - Mail on SundayCarpenter has raided the BBC archives to reproduce memos and letters which give a vivid picture of life at the Beeb when Spike was at his creative acme. He is good at describing the chemistry and backstage tension of The Goo
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