Pearson, Hesketh

Pearson, Hesketh

▪ English writer
born Feb. 20, 1887, Hawford, Worcestershire, Eng.
died April 9, 1964, London

      English actor, director, and biographer.

      After attending the Bedford Grammar School, he took his first job in a shipping office. In 1911 Pearson turned to the theatre, but his acting career was interrupted by World War I; he joined the army and fought as a private in Mesopotamia and Persia from 1914 to 1918. Pearson then returned to the stage as both actor and director. It was not until 1921 that he began his career as a writer, with Modern Men and Mummies (1921), which contained amusing portraits of his prominent contemporaries in the theatre.

      Pearson's output largely consisted of lively and popular biographies of famous literary and artistic figures. Among such works are Doctor Darwin (1930); Gilbert and Sullivan (1935); A Life of Shakespeare (1942); G.B.S.: A Full-Length Portrait (1942); Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (1943); The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946); The Man Whistler (1952); and Henry of Navarre (1963). A posthumous autobiography, Hesketh Pearson, by Himself, appeared in 1965.

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