The Shapes of Sleep [antikvár]

ÍCÍflSiaMlEfö The Shapes of Sleep JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY was born in 1894 in Bradford and was educated at Bradford schools and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He served with the Duke of Wellington's and Devon Regiments from 1914101919. Already well-established as a playwright, he was a director of the Mask Theatre in London in 1938 and then became a radio lecturer for the BBC programme, Postscripts during World War II. He was a regular contributor to the New Statesman and was Chairman of the Unesco International Theatre Conference in Paris in 1947 and in Prague in 1948. He received the Black Memóriái Prize in 1930, the Ellen Terry Award in 1948 and held teaching posts at the Universities of Birmingham, St. Andrews and Bradford. Among his many plays are An Inspector Calls (1937)5 When We Are Married (1938) and The Linden Tree (1947). His novels include The Good Companions (1929), Bright Day (1936), Blackout in Gretley (1942, alsó available in Classic Thrillers) and Lost Empires (1965). In 1977 he was awarded the Order of Merit. J. B. Priestley was married three times, from 1953 to the writer Jacquetta Hawkes. He died in 1984.