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Great Friends
1980
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
The English novelist and naturalist draws informal, affectionate portraits of his literary friends, including Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and T. E. Lawrence
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
11
5 STARS
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Author

David Garnett
David Garnett
Author · 7 books

David Garnett, known as "Bunny", was an English writer and publisher. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into Fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel Aspects of Love (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical was based. He was the son of Richard Garnett. His first wife was the illustrator and author Ray Garnett (née Marshall) with whom he had two sons including Richard Garnett. His second wife was Angelica Bell. His mother was the translator Constance Garnett.

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