author
Frank Swinnerton
1884–1982
A prolific English novelist, critic, and essayist, he spent decades at the center of literary life while writing more than fifty books of his own. His fiction and criticism helped connect late Victorian traditions with the modern literary world that followed.
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 Wood Green, London, in 1884, Frank Swinnerton built a long career as a novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist. He left school young and went into publishing, later working as a reader and editor at Chatto & Windus, where he was involved with writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey.
Alongside his publishing work, he became a remarkably productive author, writing more than fifty books. His novels, criticism, and literary memoirs made him an important observer of English literary culture, and his long life gave him a rare link to earlier generations of writers such as H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, and Arnold Bennett.
Swinnerton died in 1982. He is remembered not only for his fiction, but also for the clear, informed way he wrote about books, writers, and the world of publishing.