John Cowper Powys
JOHN COWPER POWYS was born in Derbyshire in 1872. His first book, a collection of poems, was published in 1896, the year of his marriage to Margaret Lyon. They had one son. His career slowly blossomed with novels, stories, more poetry, autobiography, philosophy and literary criticism, all marked with his highly individual vision, as well as many appearances on the lecture circuit, mainly in the United States, where he lived between 1905 and 1934. Two of his brothers, Theodore and Llewelyn, became famed as writers during this time. He wrote several deeply influential major novels, including Wolf Solent (1929) and A Glastonbury Romance (1932), as well as a remarkable autobiography, published in 1934. He and his second partner, Phyllis Playter, lived in Wales until his death in 1963, at the age of 90.
