William Plomer, poet, novelist, and librettist, earned lasting fame through his first book, a novel of South Africa, Turbott Wolfe (1925), begun when he was nineteen. This novel established Plomer's r...
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A writer of extraordinary versatility, William Plomer earned in his lifetime a reputation as a novelist, poet, writer of short and longer stories, editor, broadcaster, librettist (in collaboration wit...
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In his final decade the novelist, biographer, and poet William Plomer attained the kind of recognition generally conferred on establishment literary figures: he was made a fellow of the Royal Society,...
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William Plomer was born in South Africa of English parents, but worked abroad for most of his life, first in Japan and then in England. The literary skills, emotional tendencies, and intellectual atti...
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William Charles Franklin Plomer