| Birth Day | February 23, 1911 |
| Birth Place | England |
| Age | 84 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Feb 28, 1995 (age 84) |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Author associated with Britain's Birmingham Group, a generational group of writers during WWII. His career was incredibly diverse. He produced a number of novels following his graduation from University in rapid-fire succession. Throughout his more than 50-year career, he would work as a professor, editor, broadcaster, and author of many revered non-fiction works featuring his gift for sharp and down-to-earth literary criticism. The most notable of his life's' works a collection critiques: The English Novel: a Short Critical History published in 1951.
Born in Birmingham, he attended King Edward's Grammar school before continuing on at the University of Birmingham. He began to write fiction and teach after graduation. These positions took him across the pond to America, teaching at notable schools such as Vassar College in New York before settling on a position at the New University of Ulster, in Northern Ireland in 1967.
He was so prolific as a writer that by the time of his death, he'd accumulated a large pile of works left in manuscript. He even started writing and editing poetry at the very tail end of his life.
He married and had four children.
He went to university with poets Henry Reed and Louis Macneice.
