biography
| name: |
Quennell, Sir Peter (Courtney)
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pronunciation:
[kwenel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–93)
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| biography:
| Biographer, born in Bickley, SE Greater London, UK. He studied at Oxford, became professor of English at Tokyo for a year, then returned to London as a writer. Author of several books of verse and a novel, and editor of the Cornhill Magazine (1944–51), he is best known for his many biographical studies, including those of Byron (1935, 1941), Ruskin (1949), Shakespeare (1963), and Pope (1968). He also edited many volumes of literary studies. He was knighted in 1992. |
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