Brian Finney is a British-American scholar of

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

. He has a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy from the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

and a PhD in English from

Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' ...

. He taught at the University of London until 1987, when he migrated to

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. Since then, he has taught at the University of California, Riverside; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and California State University, Long Beach.Official website
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James Tait Black Award The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Unit ...

for his biography of

Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

Bibliography

* ''Since How It Is: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction''. London: Covent Garden P, 1972. * ''Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography''. London: Faber & Faber; New York: Oxford UP, 1979. * ''The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century''. London: Faber & Faber; New York: Oxford UP, 1985. * ''D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers: A Critical Study''. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. * ''English Fiction Since 1984: Narrating a Nation''. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. * ''Martin Amis. Routledge Guides to Literature''. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. * ''Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society''. Amazon: Kindle, 2011. * ''Money Matters. A Novel''. Amazon: KDP, 2019. * ''Dangerous Conjectures''. Amazon: KDP, 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finney, Brian Living people British biographers Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of the University of London University of California, Riverside faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Southern California faculty California State University, Long Beach faculty Year of birth missing (living people)