author
Frank Swinnerton
1884–1982
Best known as a sharp-eyed English novelist and critic, he built a long literary career that stretched across most of the twentieth century. His books often focus on ordinary lives, social change, and the everyday pressures behind modern manners.
4 Audiobooks
The Three Lovers
by Frank Swinnerton
Nocturne
by Frank Swinnerton
Coquette
by Frank Swinnerton
R. L. Stevenson : A critical study
by Frank Swinnerton
About the author
Born in London in 1884, Frank Swinnerton became a novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist whose career lasted for decades. He wrote more than 50 books and was also closely involved in publishing, working as a reader and editor early in his career.
Swinnerton is often remembered not only for his own fiction, but also for his place in literary life. As a publisher's editor, he helped support other writers, including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey, and he developed a reputation as an intelligent, clear-minded commentator on books and authors.
His fiction and criticism were known for being readable rather than showy, and his long life made him an important link between late Victorian literary culture and the modern twentieth-century novel. He died in 1982.