biography
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Powell, Anthony (Dymoke)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–2000)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, worked in publishing and journalism before World War 2, and by 1936 had published four satirical novels, beginning with Afternoon Men (1931). After the war he began the series of novels he called A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75; televised, 1997) - 12 volumes, covering 50 years of British upper middle-class life and attitudes. At Lady Molly's (1957) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Temporary Kings (1973) won the W H Smith Literary Award. He also published four volumes of memoirs under the general title To Keep the Ball Rolling (1976–82). Later books include the novel The Fisher King (1986) and a volume of criticism, Under Review (1992). He was made a Companion of Honour in 1988. |
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