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'I have tried to depict Arnold Bennett as a man of character and integrity, a fundamentally innocent humorist, a superlative friend, and, to others, not myself, a difficult personality; but I have worked under considerable difficulties, with many interruptions, and the result may be unsatisfactory. If it is, I shall be sorry. One of my problems has arisen from the fact that to live again, as I have done, in a period long past and full of painful memories, has proved agitating and therefore exhausting.' Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific English writer and journalist. He was a friend and benefactor to many writers of his generation including H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Aldous Huxley, and Siegfried Sassoon. Frank Swinnerton became acquainted with Bennett after sending him a draft of his first novel and later they became close friends over the course of many years. He wrote this detailed biography of Bennett some years after his death. It was first published in 1978.

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Frank Swinnerton (1884 -1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist. He left school at fourteen and was determined to pursue a journalist career from an early age. He was first employed as an office boy for a newspaper publisher, Hay, Nisbet & Co; later he worked as a clerk-receptionist for the publishers of Everyman's Library, finally moving at the age of twenty-two to Chatto & Windus, where he became a proofreader and later editor for the next seventeen years. He was a prolific writer and left in his legacy over fifty works which include fiction, literary biographies and essays. Among his best known novels are Nocturn (1917), Quadrille (1965) and Sanctuary (1966). Thanks to his long career in publishing he was acquainted with the generation of writers that included H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett. Swinnerton was often considered to be the last link between the generation of writers whose career peaked over the fin de si cle and high modernism period, and those of the post modern tradition.

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