Mervyn Peake Life Stories, Books, & Links


	Mervyn Peake - Life Stories, Books, and Links ť Biographical Information ť Stories about Mervyn Peake ť Selected works by this author ť Selected books about / related to this author ť Recommended links


Mervyn Peake as war artist; see our guest contribution by Sebastian Peake.

Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)

Category: English Literature

Born: July 9, 1911
Kuling, Kiangsi Province, China

Died: November 17, 1968
Burcot, Oxfordshire, England

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Edward Lear, J. R. R. Tolkien

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11/17/1968		Mervyn Peake Perspective On this day in 1968 Mervyn Peake died, aged fifty-seven. Peake's career as novelist, poet, children's author, artist and illustrator was prolific and eccentric. The critics continue to ignore or quarrel over the achievement, but the biographies and memoirs tell the story of a remarkable man and a full life -- though in the end, the author of the 1000-page Gormenghast trilogy was so debilitated by illness that he could manage only postcards to his son: "Here's some perspective for you."

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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor children
Figures of Speech children
Letters from a Lost Uncle fiction
Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake illustration, prose, anthology
The Art of Gormenghast by Estelle Daniel, Mervyn Peake (Illustrator) non-fiction
The Gormenghast Novels: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone anthology, fiction

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A Child of Bliss: Growing Up With Mervyn Peake by Sebastian Peake memoir
A World Away: A Memoir of Mervyn Peake by Maeve Gilmore memoir
Mervyn Peake: A Personal Memoir by Gordon Smith memoir
Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold : A Life by Malcolm Yorke biography
Vast Alchemies by G. Peter Winnington biography

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Mervyn Peake, Official Website
For a complete list of books and links relating to Mervyn Peake, see www.mervynpeake.org.

Peake Studies
A leading journal in the field, with a complete bibliography.

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