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Percy Lubbock
1879–1965
Best known for The Craft of Fiction, he helped shape how generations of readers and writers think about the novel. His work ranges from literary criticism to biography, written in a careful, elegant style that kept him influential long after publication.
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The Craft of Fiction
by Percy Lubbock
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About the author
Born in London on June 4, 1879, Percy Lubbock was an English essayist, critic, and biographer. He studied at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, and went on to build a reputation as a thoughtful man of letters with a strong interest in how fiction works.
Lubbock is most closely associated with The Craft of Fiction (1921), a book that became highly influential in discussions of narrative technique and the art of the novel. He also wrote biographies and literary studies, including work on Samuel Pepys and Edith Wharton, and was known for his polished prose and reflective approach to literature.
Much of his later life was spent in Italy. He died on August 1, 1965, and remains remembered less as a novelist than as a critic who gave readers a lasting vocabulary for talking about form, point of view, and the structure of fiction.