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J.B.Priestley

Life and Works

John Boynton Priestley was an outstanding English novelist, dramatist and critic. Son of a schoolmaster, Priestley was born in Bradford in 1894. He received his education in his home town and after serving in the infantry in the First World War, he returned to pursue studies at the University of Cambridge. Thereafter he went to London where he worked as a reviewer, essayist and literary journalist. Writer of several novels which became and still are best-sellers, Priestley may best be described as a man of letters’. The Good Companies (1929), Angel Pavement (1930), They Walk in the City (1936), Let the People Sing (1939), Festival at Fairhridge (1951), and The Magicians (1954) are some of his novels mostly traditional in form that established him as a successful and popular novelist. In the 1930s he embarked upon a new equally successful career—that of a playwright. His plays, mostly experimental in treatment of time and of past and future events, include Dangerous Corner (1932), An Inspector Calls (1946), and Dragon’s Mouth (1952). His work for the stage (he had considerable production experience) is craftsmanlike and like all his writing, highly competent. He had been involved in dramatizing other writers’ work too. His later books include the autobiographical Margin Released (1962), Man and Time (1964), Essay of Two Decades (1961), The Edwardians (1970) and The English (1973). Priestley was director of the influential journal New Statesman and Nation and after declining a knighthood and a peerage, accepted the Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. He died in Stratford-on-Avon on August 14, 1984.

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जॉन बौयन्टन प्रीस्टले बीसवीं शताब्दी के सुप्रसिद्ध अंग्रेजी उपन्यासकार, नाटककार और आलोचक थे। एक स्कूल मास्टर के पुत्र जॉन का जन्म 1894 में Bradford में हुआ था। उन्होंने प्रारम्भिक शिक्षा गृह नगर में प्राप्त की। इसके बाद उन्होंने शिक्षा Trinity Hall कैम्ब्रिज में प्राप्त की। इसके बाद वे लन्दन गये जहाँ उन्होंने एक आलोचक, निबन्धकार और साहित्यिक पत्रकार का कार्य किया। उन्होंने कई उपन्यास लिखे। वे ‘Man of Letters’ के रूप में जाने जाते हैं। उन्होंने अपनी AngelPavement, 1930 में लिखी। वे शीघ्र ही एक प्रसिद्ध उपन्यासकार बन गये। इसके बाद उन्होंने नाटक लिखे। उन्होंने मंच पर भी कार्य किया। वे एक अच्छे निबन्धकार भी हैं। उन्होंने आलोचनाएँ भी लिखी हैं।

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