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Informationen zum Autor Alan Ross was born in Calcutta in 1922 and spent his childhood in Bengal. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and was editor of the London Magazine for forty years! introducing the work of writers such as Paul Theroux! Graham Swift! Hugo Williams and Allan Massie to the British public. His books include poetry collections! biographies! travel books and autobiography. He died in 2001. Klappentext Cricket writer, acclaimed biographer, editor of the "London Magazine," and one of the central figures in British literary life for the past four decades, Alan Ross was foremost a poet of high elegance whose work is selected and introduced here by his friend David Hughes. Zusammenfassung Cricket writer! author of acclaimed autobiographies! independent publisher! editor of the London Magazine! traveller! sportsman! Alan Ross was foremost a poet of high elegance! whose sixty years of work! from his commission in the Royal Navy in 1941 to his death in 2001! is selected and introduced in these pages by his friend David Hughes.
