Welch, Denton

Welch, Denton

▪ British artist and writer
born March 27, 1915, Shanghai
died Dec. 30, 1948, Middle Orchard, near Borough Green, Kent, Eng.

      English painter and novelist chiefly remembered for two imaginative novels of adolescence, Maiden Voyage (1943) and In Youth Is Pleasure (1944).

      Welch was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire. After a visit to China he studied painting at the Goldsmith School of Art. In 1935, while still at school, he was severely injured in a cycling accident that left him an invalid for the rest of his life; but he continued painting, exhibiting frequently at the Leicester galleries, and began his career as a writer.

      With the exception of two novels and a volume of short stories, Brave and Cruel (1946), Welch's other works have been published posthumously: A Voice Through a Cloud (1950), considered by many his best novel; Journals (1952), an account of his wide travels, taken despite his bad health; I Left My Grandfather's House (1958), which is only a very rough draft; and Denton Welch—Selections from His Published Works (1963), which contains a notable introduction by Jocelyn Brooke.

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