John Cowper
Powys
born October 8, 1872, Shirley,
Derbyshire, England
died June 17, 1963, Blaenau Ffestiniog,
Merioneth, Wales
Welsh novelist, essayist, and poet, known
chiefly for his long panoramic novels,
including Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury
Romance (1932), and Owen Glendower (1940).
He was the brother of the authors T.F. Powys
and Llewelyn Powys.
Educated at Sherborne School and the
University of Cambridge, Powys was a
university extension lecturer for about 40
years, 30 of them in the United States. His
works include a striking Autobiography
(1934) and books of essays, among them The
Meaning of Culture (1930), The Pleasures of
Literature (1938), and The Art of Growing
Old (1943).
