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Biography of V. S. Pritchett
Name: V. S. Pritchett
Birth Date: December 16, 1900
Death Date: March 21, 1997
Place of Birth: Ipswich, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author
V. S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was an English short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, travel writer, biographer, and autobiographer. Though not an innovator in terms of style, he was nevertheless an interesting and highly competent writer.V. S. Pritchett, who was born on December 16, 1900, in Ipswich, England, to Sawdon and Beatrice (Martin) Pritchett, told the story of his life in two volumes. The first of these is A Cab at the Door: A Memoir (the British subtitle is Childhood and Youth, 1900-1920), and the second is Midnight Oil (1971). His account of his life is humorous at times and rather detached. His father, a religious seeker, found refuge in later years in Christian Science. Micawber-like, Sawdon Pritchett was optimistic about the get-rich-quick schemes which left the family in straitened circumstances and which accounted for the title, A Cab at the Door. The family had to move frequently, with disastrous consequences for Pritchett's formal …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Review 85 (Spring 1977), deals essentially with A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil and sheds some light on Pritchett's style in autobiography; Valentine Cunningham, "Coping with Bigger Words," Times Literary Supplement (June 25, 1982), provides a review of Pritchett's Collected Stories and deals with his progress as a writer. S. S. Prawer, "The Soul of Brevity," Times Literary Supplement (August 17, 1984), includes a review of Pritchett's The Other Side of the Frontier: A V. S. Pritchett Reader and his Collected Stories and is important for the comments of one first-class writer on the quality and methods of another. Additional works by Pritchett include "An Interview" conducted by Douglass A. Hughes, Studies in Short Fiction 13 (Fall 1976); "Henry Yorke, Henry Green," Twentieth Century Literature 29 (Winter 1983), which appears in an issue devoted to essays on Yorke--Pritchett evaluates the writer's work and in the process tells the reader much about his own literary values and interests.
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