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Peter Quennell
AuthorBooks · Second hand1905-1993
Sir Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, journalist, poet and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. In his Times obituary he was described as "the last genuine example of the English man of letters". Anthony Powell called him "The Last of the Mandarins".
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About Peter Quennell
Birth
1905
Death
1993
Sir Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, journalist, poet and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. In his Times obituary he was described as "the last genuine example of the English man of letters". Anthony Powell called him "The Last of the Mandarins".
Peter Quennell was a prolific British writer whose work spans from poetry to literary criticism.
Born in Kent in 1905, he grew up in a family environment deeply connected to history and literature.
His early talent allowed him to publish his first book, Masques and Poems, at just seventeen years old.
He is widely recognized for his work Four Portraits, where he examines the figures of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes.
Throughout his life, Quennell stood out as a sharp biographer and specialist in the social history of Great Britain.
