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Connolly, Cyril Vernon 1903-74
English author and journalist
He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He contributed to the New Statesman and other periodicals and wrote regularly for the Sunday Times. He was founder-editor of Horizon (1939-50) with Stephen Spender and briefly literary editor of the Observer. Among his works are The Rock Pool (1936), his only novel, Enemies of Promise (1938), critical essays with 'A Georgian Boyhood' describing his own childhood, The Unquiet Grave (1944), under the pseudonym 'Palinurus', containing miscellaneous aphorisms and reflections, and various collections of essays.
Bibliography: Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life (1997)
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