Keith Alldritt is a contemporary British novelist, biographer and critic.

Biography

Aldritt was educated at

Wolverhampton Grammar School Wolverhampton Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Wolverhampton, England. History Initially a grammar school for boys, WGS was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Merchant Taylors, wh ...

and

St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cam ...

. He lives and works in the West Midlands, the setting for his novels. For some years he was a Professor of English and American Studies at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Unive ...

and then at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

, Canada. He has written extensively for radio, television and film and has contributed articles on modern and contemporary art to various magazines and newspapers in Britain, Canada and the United States. He was made a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 600 Fellows, ele ...

in 1978.

Awards

His novel ''The Good Pit Man'' was a New Fiction Society choice. For his biography ''David Jones-Writer and Artist'' he was elected to membership of the Welsh Academi.

Books

* ''England Resounding - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance'' (Robert Hale 2019) * ''Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot - A Biography'' (Robert Hale 2015) * ''David Jones:Writer and Artist'' (2003) * ''The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting'' (1998) * ''W.B.Yeats:The Man and the Milieu'' (1997) * ''The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D.Roosvelt and Winston Churchill, 1941-1945'' (1995) * ''Churchill the Writer: His Life as a Man of Letters'' (1992) * ''Modernism in the Second World War: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid'' (1989) * ''Eliot's Four Quartets: Poetry as Chamber Music'' * ''Elgar on the Journey to Hanley: A Novel'' (1979) * ''The Lover Next Door'' (1977) * ''The Good Pit Man: A Novel'' (1976) LCCCN 765367 * ''The Visual Imagination of D.H. Lawrence'' (1971) * ''The Making of George Orwell: An Essay in Literary History'' (1969)

References

* Voorhees, R. J. "Justice to George Orwell" in ''Collected Essays: Journalism and Letters of George Orwell''. Eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. Purdue University, 1970 * Workman, Gillian. ''Orwell Criticism'', 1972 * Muller, James W. In ''Finest Hour: Journal of the International Churchill Society'' No. 77, 1992 * Cooper, John Xeros. ''T.S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets'', Cambridge University Press, 1995 * Rae, Patricia. "Mr Charrington's Junk Shop: T.S. Eliot and Modernist Poetics in 'Nineteen Eighty Four'", ''Twentieth Century Literature'', 22 June 1997 * Kleinzahler, August. "Blackfell's Scarlatti", ''London Review of Books'', Vol. 21. No.2, 21 June 1999, pp. 30–31. * Bryer, Jackson R. ''Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1972'' Durham: Duke University Press, p. 194. * Malcolm, Noel. "Poet of the Ever-Present Past". ''The Telegraph'' 11 May 2003 * Morley, Christopher. "Elgar and Wolverhampton Wanderers - an unlikely match", ''Birmingham Post'' Life and Leisure (Sport), 2 September 2010 * Cambridge Pre-U Syllabus. Recommended Reading Post 1960 Poetry. British writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University of Illinois faculty University of British Columbia faculty People educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub