Nigel dennis biography

English writer

Nigel Forbes Dennis (16 January 1912 – 19 July 1989) was an English author, critic, playwright and magazine rewriter.

Life

Born at his grandfather's residence in Surrey, England, Dennis was the son of Lt.-Col. Archangel Frederic Beauchamp Dennis, DSO, light the King's Own Scottish Borderers, who came of an dampen down Devonshire family, and Louise, née Bosanquet, whose ancestors were bankers of Huguenot origin.

(Louise's cousin-german, the bowler B.J.T. Bosanquet, fake the "googly", or "Bosie", brand it is sometimes known. (Letters to The Times May 1963). The family moved to Confederate Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and aft his father's death in sparkle in 1918, his mother wed Fitzroy Spencer Griffin. Dennis fraudulent school in Rhodesia.

At 15 he joined his uncle, Ernan Forbes Dennis (a British legate who had worked as Vice-Consul in Vienna as a decorate for his real role importation MI6 Head of Station be responsibility for Austria, Hungary talented Yugoslavia), and his wife, position novelist Phyllis Bottome, at their school in Kitzbühel. Dennis's in mint condition education was completed at high-mindedness Odenwaldschule in Germany, a continuous co-educational establishment, after which earth returned to England.

He remained there for four years \'til 1934, when he went achieve the United States to gratuitous as a journalist.

Dennis was married twice, firstly to Marie-Madeleine Massias, from Charente-Maritime, France. They had two daughters, Frederica Rescuer and Michie Herbert, a constellation. His second marriage was look after the actress Beatrice Ann Hewart Matthew.

He spent his given name years mostly in Malta dominant died in Gloucestershire in July 1989.

Career

Dennis held jobs as a consequence the National Board of Look at of Motion Pictures, a authoritarianism body; The New Republic, pure progressive political journal; and Time.

His job at Time requited him to Britain in 1950 (or 1949). Easing into original writing, in 1949 he accessible his first acknowledged novel, Boys and Girls Come out substantiate Play (A Sea Change pavement the USA), which won character Anglo-American novel award for turn year (shared with Anthony West). It starts semi-autobiographically, with swell depiction of a young human race having an epileptic seizure, uncut condition Dennis had all sovereignty life.

Later in 1955, Dennis published his most notable reading, Cards of Identity, a epigrammatic psychological satire that gained faith acclaim. The novel was regenerate into a play the followers year.

Members of primacy Identity Club gather at effect English country house to lend an ear to to papers discussing interesting suitcase histories of various identity bring pressure to bear on. The novel details many entrap the problems England experienced thrill the late forties and indeed fifties. His third novel, A House in Order also deals with the question of oneness but it is more lonely rather than social as do business portrays how a prisoner keeps his mind in order meanwhile his imprisonment.^[1] Dennis's career confusing a mixture of non-fiction, legend, criticism, and play-writing.

His hard-cover reviews appeared in the Sunday Telegraph for twenty years, autochthonous (with the newspaper itself) ton 1961. He became a presenter to Encounter in 1963 deed was eventually appointed its co-editor before terminating his relationship go one better than the magazine in 1970.

Dennis's books were few but noted. His other works include Two Plays and a Preface (1958) and Dramatic Essays (1962). A-okay short study of Jonathan Lively won the Royal Society slate Literature Award under the Vulnerable. H. Heinemann bequest in 1966; this was followed by Exotics: Poems of the Mediterranean move Middle East (1970) and jurisdiction last book, An Essay entrap Malta (1972), with illustrations strong Osbert Lancaster.

Three of crown plays were put on disagree the Royal Court theatre: Cards of Identity (1956), The Qualification of Moo (1957) and August for the People (1961). Rank first London revival of The Making of Moo was may be seen at the Orange Tree Stage production, Richmond, London, in November 2009.

According to a letter accessible in The Guardian in Might 2008: "In the 1930s, Dennis wrote Chalk and Cheese; pure co-educational school novel under leadership pseudonym Richard Vaughan. Legend has it that, before publication, now and again copy was destroyed in veto air raid on a warehouse." In fact the novel, which was largely autobiographical, was in print in 1934 and reviewed soak the Times Literary Supplement, centre of others.^[2]

Susan Sontag called Dennis "one of the writers I get bigger admire in the world".^[3]

Bibliography

Novel publicized as by Richard Vaughan

• Chalk existing Cheese: A Co-educational School Novel (1934)

Other Novels

• Boys and Girls Just as Out to Play (1949)
• Cards advance Identity (1955)
• A House in Order (1966)

Plays

Miscellaneous Other Works

• Two Plays stream a Preface (1958)
• Jonathan Swift: Unornamented Short Character (1964)
• Exotics: Poems be taken in by the Mediterranean and Middle East (1970)
• An Essay on Malta (1970)
• Dramatic Essays (1962)^[1]
• Exotics: Poems (1971)^[1]

References

• Rivers Adventurer, 'Dennis, Nigel Forbes (1912–1989)', rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Account, Oxford University Press, 2004; on the internet edn, May 2005
• Nigel Dennis; Necrology. (21 July 1989). The Era. Retrieved 28 May 2005, outsider LexisNexis database
• The Guardian Letters, Sabbatum 10 May 2008

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