T. F. Powys
Full Name: | Theodore Francis Powys |
Born: | December 20, 1875 Shirley, Derbyshire, England |
Died: | November 27, 1953 Mappowder, Dorset, England |
Occupation: | Writer |
Nationality: | English |
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Biography
Theodore Francis Powys - published as T. F. Powys - was a British novelist and short-story writer. He is best remembered for his allegorical novel Mr. Weston's Good Wine (1927), where Weston the wine merchant is evidently God. Powys was influenced by the Bible, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift and other writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as later writers such as Thomas Hardy and Friederich Nietzsche.
He was the son of a vicar, brother of writer John Cowper Powys, and the descendant of the poets Donne and Cowper.
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