biography
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Cooper, William
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pseudonym of H(arry) S(ummerfield) Hoff
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| lived:
| (1910–2002)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Crewe, Cheshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge. In the 1930s he published four novels under his own name, but it was Scenes from Provincial Life (1950) that established his reputation and was an influence on the ‘Angry Young Men’ of the 1950s. Three further novels charting the adventures of the same anti-hero followed: Scenes from Married Life (1961), Scenes from Metropolitan Life (1982), and Scenes from Later Life (1983). In 1960 he published Genji, a play based on Lady Murasaki's 11th-c novel, The Tales of Genji. A volume of memoirs, From Early Life, appeared in 1990. |
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