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J. B. Priestley

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Gender Male
Death40 years ago
Date of birth September 13,1894
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Manningham
Bradford
United Kingdom
Date of died August 14,1984
DiedStratford-upon-Avon
United Kingdom
Spouse Jacquetta Hawkes
Job Politician
Playwright
Screenwriter
Novelist
Presenter
Education Trinity Hall Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Children Tom Priestley
Mary Priestley
Sylvia Goaman
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The Good Companions
English Journey
Angel Pavement
Bright Day
Benighted
Time and the Conways and Other Plays
Delight
The Magicians
other place, and other stories of the same sort
Image Men
I Have Been Here Before
Saturn over the Water
Festival at Farbridge
The doomsday men
Man and Time
Margin released
The English novel
English Humour
Black-out in Gretley
The shapes of sleep
The Edwardians
English Comic Characters, The
The Thirty- First of June
Papers from Lilliput
Let the People Sing
Journey down a rainbow
Salt is leaving
Particular Pleasures: Being a Personal Record of Some Varied Arts and Many Different Artists
The Art Of The Dramatist
Snoggle: A Story for Anybody Between 9 and 90
Over the Long High Wall: Some Reflections and Speculations on Life, Death and Time
The Other Place
It's an old country
They walk in the city
Grumbling at Large: Selected Essays of J. B. Priestley ; with an Introduction by Valerie Grove
Literature and western man
Found, Lost, Found: Or, The English Way of Life
Three Men in New Suits
Low Notes on a High Level
Jenny Villiers
The Long Mirror: A Play in Three Acts
Music at Night
Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency, 1811-20
Thoughts in the wilderness
London End
Mystery at Greenfingers: A Comedy of Detection
Essays of five decades
The town major of Miracourt
Victoria's Heyday
Self-selected Essays
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John Boynton Priestley OM was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions, which first brought him to wide public notice.

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