Peter Stansky
Peter Stansky studied at Yale and Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he taught before moving to Stanford University, becoming the holder of the endowed Frances and Charles Field Chair in History. He has written extensively on modern British culture, particularly on William Morris, George Orwell, the Bloomsbury Group, the London Blitz, as well as on Julian Bell and John Cornford.
Edward Upward: Art and Life
Edward Upward: Art and Life
Upward (1903-2009), a novelist and short story writer, is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle. However, he was revered by his peers – Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood and Spender – for his intellect, literary gifts and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Isherwood was forged at school and university, so each regarded the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of...
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