biography
| name: |
Symons, A(lphonse) J(ames) A(lbert)
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pronunciation:
[simonz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–41)
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| biography:
| Bibliographer and biographer, born in London, UK. Self-educated, he was apprenticed to a furrier, before becoming secretary and later director of the First Edition Club. He proved to be a skilled bibliographer, but his greatest achievement was The Quest for Corvo (1934), the biography of the writer and novelist Frederick Rolfe, which is regarded as a modern masterpiece. |
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