biography
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Peake, Mervyn (Laurence)
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| lived:
| (1911–68)
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| biography:
| Writer and artist, born in Kuling, EC China, where his father was a missionary. Educated in China and Kent, he became a painter, and taught at the Westminster School of Art. He is best known for his Gothic fantasy trilogy of novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950, televised 2000), and Titus Alone (1959), and for the novel Mr Pye (1953). He also published books of verse, and illustrated several classics, including The Ancient Mariner, and children's books. |
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