biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1949– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and spent some time at Yale. He is chiefly known for his biographical studies of Pound, T S Eliot, Dickens, and Thomas More, and also for his fiction, which includes The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Hawksmoor (1985, Whitbread), First Light (1989), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994), and Milton in America (1996). His other work includes poetry, television criticism, and regular reviews for The Times since 1986. Recent work includes The Life of Thomas More (1998), The Plato Papers, a Novel (1999), and London: The Biography (2001). |
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