86. John Pudney Papers
John Pudney, 19091977 John Sleigh Pudney, John Lehmann, Compton Mackenzie, Wolf Mankowitz, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Laurence Olivier, J. B. Priestley, Frederic Prokosch, Herbert Edward
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John Pudney, 1909-1977
Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk, 1926-1976) 3 boxes, 1 galley folder (1 linear foot) Acquisition: Purchases 1963 (R1610), 1973 (R5971), 1974 (R6491), 1977 (R7675)
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Index of Correspondents Biographical Sketch John Sleigh Pudney, British poet, novelist, editor, and journalist was born on January 19, 1909, in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England. The only son of Henry William Pudney and Mabel Sleigh Pudney, he was reared in the country, but was sent away for his education to Gresham's Hall, Holt. At Gresham's Hall Pudney became friends with W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Pudney left school at sixteen, however, to work for an estate agency and to pursue his interest in writing. His first volume of poetry, SPRING ENCOUNTER (1933), ushered Pudney into the literary circle of Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1934 he married Crystal Herbert, with whom he had two daughters and a son. At this time Pudney also began his professional writing career in earnest as writer-producer for the BBC (1934-1937), and as a journalist for the NEWS CHRONICLE. In 1938 Pudney published the first of many novels, JACOBSON'S LADDER. After 1965 Pudney focused on the subject of recovery (from divorce and alcoholism), producing several articles and the autobiographical THANK GOODNESS FOR CAKE (1978). In 1967 he married his second wife, Monica Forbes Curtis, and renewed his career with poetry readings accompanied by jazz musicians. During 1966-1967 he continued to write poems, two of which appeared in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT after his death on November 10, 1977. | |
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