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Barbara Pym
AuthorBooks · Second hand1913-1980
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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About Barbara Pym
Birth
1913
Death
1980
First book
1947
Years writing
79
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Barbara Pym was born in 1913 in the British town of Oswestry.
Her most renowned work is the acclaimed novel Excellent Women.
Throughout her prolific career, she wrote a total of 50 works.
Her stories masterfully explore the daily lives and psychology of single women in England.
This distinguished British novelist left a literary legacy that encompasses both fiction and autobiography.
