biography
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Raven, Simon (Arthur Noël)
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| lived:
| (1927–2001)
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| biography:
| Novelist, playwright, and journalist, born in Leicester, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, served in the army, then turned to writing, producing his first novel, The Feathers of Death, in 1959. His most notable work is Alms for Oblivion (1964–76), a series of novels portraying the mid-20th-c English upper classes, and this was followed by another sequence, The First-born of Egypt (1984–92). Television dramatizations of well-known works include Point Counter Point (1968), The Way We Live Now (1969), The Pallisers (1974), Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978), and The Blackheath Poisonings (1993). His short story collections include Remember Your Grammar, and Other Haunted Stories (1997). A regular newspaper contributor, he also wrote an autobiography, Shadows on the Grass (1982), and several other books of memoirs. |
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