Powell, Anthony Dymoke

Powell, Anthony Dymoke
▪ 2001

      British writer (b. Dec. 21, 1905, London, Eng.—d. March 28, 2000, near Frome, Somerset, Eng.), was the author of one of the most highly regarded post-World War II literary creations, the 12-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75). In this million-word masterpiece, with its hundreds of characters, he satirically chronicled the lives of a group of upper-middle-class schoolmates from the beginning of World War I through the early 1970s, observing the relationships between his books' inhabitants and the effects that life's unpredictability had on their character. He came to be called the “English Proust.” Powell was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford, and upon graduation (1926) went to work at the Duckworth publishing firm. His first book, Afternoon Men (1931), was published by that firm, as were his three subsequent offerings—Venusberg (1932), From a View to a Death (1933), and Agents and Patients (1936). Powell became a film scriptwriter for Warner Brothers in 1936 and spent a few months in Hollywood in 1937, and around that same time he began writing book reviews for London newspapers. His next book, What's Become of Waring?, was published in 1939. Powell served in the Welch Regiment and then in the Intelligence Corps during World War II, and afterward he returned to journalism, serving on the staffs of The Times Literary Supplement and Punch magazine and writing book reviews for The Daily Telegraph. In 1948 he published the biography John Aubrey and His Friends, and in 1951 came A Question of Upbringing, the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. Following the publication of the series' final volume, Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975), Powell produced such works as the four-volume collection of memoirs To Keep the Ball Rolling (1976–82), the novel The Fisher King (1986), the collections of reviews Miscellaneous Verdicts (1990) and Under Review (1992), and three volumes of diaries entitled Journals (1995–97). Powell was made CBE in 1956, was offered a knighthood in 1973 but refused it, and was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988.

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