Carpenter, Humphrey William Bouverie

Carpenter, Humphrey William Bouverie
▪ 2006

      British writer, editor, and radio broadcaster (b. April 29, 1946, Oxford, Eng.—d. Jan. 4, 2005, Oxford), was best known for his insightful “group biographies,” notably The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends (1979), Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s (1988), The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends (1990), That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s (2000), and The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s (2002). His individual—often controversial—biographies featured such figures as Tolkien, the poets Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden, composer Benjamin Britten, playwright Dennis Potter, and former archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie. He also wrote a series of children's books and was coeditor (with his wife, Mari Prichard) of the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (1984).

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