P. N. Furbank
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Philip Nicholas Furbank (born 1920) is an English writer, scholar and critic, and a professor (now emeritus) of the Open University. He is known for significant biographies, including E. M. Forster: A Life (1977/8), and Diderot (1992), which won a Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. He has also edited the works of Daniel Defoe and made major contributions to the question of attributions to Defoe, with W. R. Owens.
He was a friend of Alan Turing, becoming his literary executor, and now general editor of Turing's collected works.
He is known also as a reviewer. Other books are on the poet Mallarmé and the painter Poussin, Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer (1966), and Behalf (1999) on political thought.
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