biography
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Firbank, (Arthur Annesley) Ronald
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| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1926)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a Roman Catholic, but left without taking a degree, and travelled in Europe. His novels (written on piles of blue postcards) are slight but innovative, and anticipate Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. His last complete work before his premature death from a disease of the lungs, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926), is quintessential Firbank, the dialogue witty and inconsequential, the hero meeting his end while in ardent pursuit of a choir boy. |
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