Nigel Dennis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nigel Dennis (January 16, 1912–July 19, 1989) was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor.
Born in Surrey, England, Dennis as a child moved with his family to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He would travel to Germany for his education before returning to the UK, where he stayed for four years before settling in the U.S. in 1934. He held jobs at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, a censorship body; The New Republic, a progressive political journal; and Time. His job at Time returned him to Britain in 1950 (or 1949). Easing into novel writing, he published his first recognized work, Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, in 1949. Later in 1955, Dennis published his most notable work, Cards of Identity, a witty psychological satire that gained cult acclaim. The novel was converted into a play the next year. Dennis career would involve a mixture of non-fiction, novel, criticism, and play writing. Starting in 1961, his book reviews would appear in the Sunday Telegraph for two decades. He began as a contributor for Encounter, a cultural-literary magazine, in 1963, and would eventually become a co-editor before terminating his relationship in 1970.
[edit] References
- Rivers Scott, ‘Dennis, Nigel Forbes (1912-1989)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005
- Nigel Dennis; Obituary. (1989, July 21). The Times. Retrieved May 28, 2005, from LexisNexis database
[edit] External links
- The New York Review of Books Nigel Dennis collection - View the first 100 words of his pieces
