Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.
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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
Bedsteforælder: Alan Courtney
Børn: Sarah Quennell og Alexander 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.
14. okt. 2024 · Sir Peter Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic. He was a wide-ranging man of letters who was ...
Peter Quennell was born on 9 March 1905 in 9 The Avenue, Bickley, Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Arena (1975), The Book Programme ...
Peter Courtney Quennell was a biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic, best known for his scholarly work on Byron.
Results · The Girls: A Tetralogy of Novels · The Girls: A Tetralogy of Novels · A Superficial Journey through Tokyo and Peking (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks) · A ...
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.
Peter Quennell has 142 books on Goodreads with 1566 ratings. Peter Quennell's most popular book is The Colosseum.
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 ...
A Superficial Journey through Tokyo and Peking (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks). by Peter Quennell · 4.54.5 out of 5 stars.