Middleton, Stanley

Middleton, Stanley

▪ British author and academic
born Aug. 1, 1919, Bulwell, Nottingham, Eng.

      British writer and academic whose many domestic novels examine lower-middle-class marital and familial relationships.

      Educated at University College, Nottingham (now University of Nottingham; B.A., 1940; M.Ed, 1952), Middleton served in the British army's Royal Artillery and in the Army Education Corps. He later taught English and became department head at High Pavement College, Nottingham.

      Although both his regional subject matter and unadorned style were out of literary fashion, Middleton won critical respect for his perceptive, restrained treatment of the lives of ordinary people and for his honest appraisal of provincial life. From the 1960s through the '80s, he published a novel almost every year. His prolific output includes Harris's Requiem (1960), about a composer who takes great joy in his creativity; A Serious Woman (1961) and Two's Company (1963), both of which explore compelling sexual attraction as the sole basis for a relationship; and Holiday (1974; cowinner of a Booker Prize), which concerns remembered childhood summer vacations and a hiatus taken from a marriage. Middleton's other novels include The Other Side (1980), about marital infidelity, Valley of Decision (1985), Changes and Chances (1990), Beginning to End (1991), and A Place to Stand (1992). He also wrote radio plays.

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