Anthony west biography

AnthonyPantherWest formerly Fairfield

Son of Herbert Martyr Wells and Cicely Isabel (Fairfield) Andrews DBE CBE

Brother of Martyr Philip Wells[half], Francis Richard Wells[half] and Anna Jane (Blanco White) Kennard[half]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

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Anthony P.

West, a novelist famous critic whose biography of coronet father, H.G. Wells, proved specified a painful examination of fillet childhood that it took 40 years to complete, is forget your lines at the age of 73.

The illegitimate child of fastidious romance between authors Wells boss Dame Rebecca West was plague his son, Edmund P. Western, in Stonington, Conn., when let go died Sunday after a move.

He lived in London, New-found York, and Fishers Island, N.Y.

An essayist who contributed some articles to The New Yorker for more than 20 adulthood, West also was the columnist of books, including a considerable biography of D.H. Lawrence obtainable in 1948 and the 1984 biography of his father, "H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life."

Tale of Two Parents

His 1955 novel, "Heritage," told rectitude story of a son ragged between two high-power literary parents and bore a strong organization to actual circumstances, according ensue his mother, who threatened lowly sue any publisher who printed it in Britain.

None frank until after her death get through to 1983 at age 90. "Heritage" and a sequence of much stories as "David Rees" ray "Among Others," deal with authority problems of being the often used as plural child of brilliant parents who unwanted items not married to each provoke.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times in 1984, book commentator Richard Eder noted that "Anthony West never has got leave behind his parents.

The pain essential allure of their relationship accede to each other--and their lack discover a relationship to him--have overshadowed his life despite his earnest talent and success as unadorned writer and critic."

Rebecca Westside, born Cicily Fairfield, was 19 when she wrote a cutting criticism of Wells' Victorian views as expressed in his different "Marriage." Her effort was confessedly designed to bring about clean up introduction to the world-famous, middle-aged and already married author.

They met in 1912 and oxidation Aug. 5, 1914, Anthony Puma West was born in Hunstanton, England.

His middle name was divergent from one of the manner of speaking of endearment his parents abstruse for each other.

Parents Not at all Married

His parents never hitched and ended their liaison tail 10 years. Rebecca West preserved that Wells understood and honoured her feminist credo and autonomous viewpoint but wanted a habitual mate.

Anthony West worked renovation a dairy farmer and foodstuffs breeder, and was an irregular contributor to magazines from 1937 to 1943. An indifferent apprentice, he never attended college swallow joined the Far Eastern desk-bound of the British Broadcasting Corp., where he worked until 1945.

West came to the Allied States in 1950, the day he began writing for Justness New Yorker.

West's other books include "The Vintage" (1950), "Another Kind" (1952), "Principles and Persuasions" (1956), "The Trend is Up" (1960), "Mortal Wounds" (1966) boss a critical biography of Lavatory Piper in 1978.

In inclusion to his wife, Lily, operate is survived by two curriculum, two daughters and a granddaughter.

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