Fiona MacCarthy (1940–2020)
Auteur van Byron: Life and Legend
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Fiona MacCarthy, a distinguished biographer and cultural historian, is the author of five other books, including William Morris, which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, and Eric Gill. She writes for The Observer, The New York Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. She lives in toon meer Derbyshire, England. toon minder
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- MacCarthy, Fiona
- Geboortedatum
- 1940-01-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2020-02-29
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Sutton, Surrey, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK - Opleiding
- Wycombe Abbey School
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (BA|1961) - Beroepen
- biographer
cultural historian
journalist
critic
debutante (1958) - Relaties
- Mellor, David (husband)
- Organisaties
- The Guardian (1963-1969)
London Evening Standard (women's editor)
Twentieth Century Society (president) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1997)
Officer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2009)
Wolfson History Prize (1995)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Non-Fiction (1994)
Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1987)
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (honorary fellow) (toon alle 7)
Royal College of Art (senior fellow)
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Gill is (or at least was) a revered British sculptor and typographer, fervent Catholic convert (at the time he was taking Catholic instruction he was also working on a life-size marble sculpture of his own penis), pillar of the progressive Left, and creator of public monuments like the Stations of the Cross at Westminster Cathedral and Prospero and Ariel outside Broadcasting House. How do we reconcile these with his sexual voraciousness? (Last year one guy decided taking a hammer to Prospero and Ariel was the solution.) Fiona McCarthy has to deal with this contradictory life in this superb biography. She's explicit but not prurient, and explicates Gill’s complicated personal philosophy and religious belief which, at least for him, squared the circle, without letting him off the hook. It's a model for a biographer tackling such explosive revelations.
A typographic note: the cover is in Gill Sans, the text is not one of Gill's (the typeface choice sadly isn't mentioned in the colophon); the design is lovely but with frequent mentions of the Gills' home Capel-y-ffin I wish designer Ron Costley had used an ffi ligature…… (meer)