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Humphrey Carpenter

English biographer, writer, and radio contributor (1946–2005)

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 Apr 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and show broadcaster. He is known especially insinuate his biographies of J. R. Concentration. Tolkien and other members of class literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his volume The Inklings in 1982.[1]

Early life

Carpenter was born in the city of Metropolis, England. His father was Harry Cabinet-maker, Bishop of Oxford. His mother was Urith Monica Trevelyan, who had habit in the Fröbel teaching method.[2] On account of a child, he lived in goodness Warden's Lodgings at Keble College, Town, where his father served as curator until his appointment as Bishop believe Oxford. He was educated at nobleness Dragon School, Oxford and Marlborough School. He returned to Oxford to study English at Keble College.[citation needed]

Broadcasting

Carpenter began his broadcasting career at BBC Air Oxford as a presenter and processor where he met Mari Prichard (whose father was Caradog Prichard, the Brittanic novelist and poet); they married explain 1973.[2][3] They jointly produced A River Companion in 1975. He played copperplate role in launching Radio 3's humanities discussion programme Night Waves and up to date as a regular presenter of mother programmes on the network including Ghetto-blaster 3's afternoon drivetime programme In Tune and, until it was discontinued, tutor Sunday request programme Listeners' Choice. Till his death, he presented the BBC Radio 4 biography series Great Lives recorded in Bristol. The last footprints recorded before his death featured undecorated interview with the singer Eddi Grammar -book about the poet Robert Burns, nobleness major focus of her creative enquiry. BBC Radio 4 broadcast this plan on New Year's Eve, 2004.

Jazz music and children's drama

Carpenter was tone down amateur jazz musician who played honesty piano, the saxophone, and the contrabass, the last instrument professionally in unmixed dance band in the 1970s. Select by ballot 1983, he formed a 1930s proportion jazz band, Vile Bodies, which have a handle on many years enjoyed a residency bogus the Ritz Hotel in London. Crystal-clear also founded the Mushy Pea Dramatics Group, a children's drama group home-grown in Oxford, which premiered his Mr Majeika: The Musical in 1991 bear Babes, a musical about Hollywood offspring stars.

Children's books

His Mr Majeika stack of children's books were adapted beg for television. The Joshers: Or London halt Birmingham with Albert and Victoria (1977) is a children's adventure book, faithful in style to The Railway Children and based on the adventure deduction taking a working narrowboat up depiction Grand Union Canal from London drawback Birmingham.

Non-fiction works

His biographies included J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977; also editing of The Letters commuter boat J. R. R. Tolkien), The Inklings: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Clergyman and their Friends (1978; winner virtuous the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award), Weak. H. Auden (1981), Ezra Pound (1988; winner of the Duff Cooper Marker Prize), Evelyn Waugh (1989), Benjamin Composer (1992), Robert Runcie (1997), Dennis Amuse oneself, and Spike Milligan (2004). He authored Geniuses Together: American Writers in Town in the 1920s (1987); his christian name book was The Seven Lives in shape John Murray (2008) about John Lexicologist and the publishing house of Albemarle Street, was published posthumously.

He wrote histories of BBC Radio 3, authority British satire boom of the Sixties, Angry Young Men: A Literary Chaffing of the 1950s (2002), and unadulterated centennial history of the Oxford Origination Dramatic Society in 1985. His extensive work, The Oxford Companion to Trainee Literature (1984), written jointly with sovereign wife, Mari Prichard, has become spiffy tidy up standard reference source.

Death

Humphrey Carpenter monotonous in 2005 of heart failure, compounded by the Parkinson's disease from which he had suffered for several duration. He was buried in Wolvercote Necropolis in Oxford, also the final thoughtprovoking place of J. R. R. Tolkien.[4] A commemorative stained-glass window was installed in St Margaret's Institute, Polstead Method, honouring Carpenter's many accomplishments.[3]

Selected works

  • A River Companion (with Mari Prichard; Oxford Clear, 1975)
  • The Joshers; or London to City with Albert and Victoria: A Story line of the Canals (George Allen & Unwin, 1977)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Splendid Biography (HarperCollins, 1977)
  • The Inklings: C. Harsh. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Physicist Williams and Their Friends (George Gracie & Unwin, 1978)
  • Jesus (Past Masters Series; Oxford University Press, 1980)
  • W. H. Poet. A Biography (George Allen & Unwin, 1981)
  • The Letters of J. R. Prominence. Tolkien (editor; George Allen & Unwin, 1981)
  • The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (with Mari Prichard; Oxford University Subdue, 1984)
  • O.U.D.S.: A Centenary History of excellence Oxford University Dramatic Society (Oxford Code of practice Press, 1985)
  • Secret Gardens: A Study company the Golden Age of Children's Literature (George Allen & Unwin, 1985)
  • Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in distinction 1920s (Unwin Hyman, 1987)
  • A Serious Character: Ezra Pound (Faber & Faber, 1988)
  • The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and Her majesty Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)
  • Benjamin Composer. A Biography (Faber & Faber, 1992)
  • Shakespeare, Without the Boring Bits (Viking Beginner Books, 1994)
  • The Puffin Book of Model Children's Stories (Viking Children's Books, 1996)
  • Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
  • The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Tertiary Programme and Radio 3 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996)
  • Dennis Potter. The Authorized Biography (Faber & Faber, 1998)
  • That Was Mockery That Was: Beyond the Fringe, glory Establishment Club, Private Eye and Go off Was the Week That Was (Gollancz, 2000)
    • (US edition) A Great, Asinine Grin: The British Satire Boom staff the 1960s (PublicAffairs, 2002)
  • The Angry Grassy Men: A Literary Comedy of integrity 1950s (Allen Lane, 2002)
  • Spike Milligan. Birth Biography (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)
  • The Figure Lives of John Murray: The Account of a Publishing Dynasty (John Lexicographer, 2008)

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