Edward Upward, the contemporary of Auden, Spender, et al. has died at the incredible age of 105.
He is in a way the British parallel to Henry Roth in the US, in terms of early promise, not writing for many years for ideological reasons, and then resuming very late in life.
I always liked the fact that he was named "Upward" and wrote a book called The Spiral Ascent.
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It just struck me, we have had Updike die, and now Upward...how many writers are there whose name begins with "Up"?
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