Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.
Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE var en engelsk biograf, litteraturhistoriker, redaktør, essayist, digter og kritiker. Han skrev meget om socialhistorie. I sin nekrolog i Times blev han beskrevet som "det sidste ægte eksempel på den engelske mand... Wikipedia (engelsk)
Født: 9. marts 1905, Bickley, Bromley, Storbritannien
Død: 27. oktober 1993, London, Storbritannien
Børn: Sarah Quennell og Alexander Quennell
Forældre: C. H. B. Quennell og Marjorie Quennell
Partner: Marilyn Kerr (1967–), Sonia Geraldine Leon (1956–), Joyce Warwick-Evans (1938–) og mere
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English poet and biographer Peter Quennell was born in Kent to an intellectual and artistic family; his parents wrote the children's history series.
Sir Peter Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic. He was a wide-ranging man of letters who was an authority on ...
31. okt. 1993 · He was 88. A published author for 71 years, Sir Peter was a prolific critic, biographer, historian, reviewer, essayist, poet and editor of books ...
Peter Courtney Quennell was a biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic, best known for his scholarly work on Byron.
Peter Quennell was brought up in Berkhamsted where he went to the same school as Graham Greene. He also met Evelyn Waugh when the two were teenagers.
Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world: A tribute. by Peter Quennell · Hardcover. Other format: Paperback. Vladimir Nabokov, his life, ...
Peter Quennell has 142 books on Goodreads with 1560 ratings. Peter Quennell's most popular book is The Colosseum.
Peter Quennell and Alan Hodge were joint editors of History Today for the remarkable duration of twenty-nine years from 1951 until 1979.
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Top Peter Quennell titles ; The Marble Foot: An Autobiography 1905-1938The Marble Foot: An Autobiography 1905-1938 ; The Wanton Chase: An Autobiography From 1939 ...