born Dec. 21, 1905, London, Eng.
died March 28, 2000, near Frome, Somerset
British novelist.
He published his first novel, Afternoon Men (1931), while working in a London publishing house. He worked in journalism and served in World War II before publishing the first of 12 novels in the autobiographical and satiric series A Dance to the Music of Time (195175). His best-known work, it reflects his outlook and experiences of English society in the decades before and after the war. His later novels include The Fisher King (1986).
Anthony Powell, 1974
Fay Godwin