What is John Cowper Powys's middle name?
Cowper
What is John Cowper Powys's full name?
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys date of birth:
October 8, 1872
How old was John Cowper Powys when died?
90
Where was John Cowper Powys born?
Derbyshire
When did John Cowper Powys die?
June 17, 1963
Where did John Cowper Powys die?
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
Why did John Cowper Powys die?
Natural Causes
Is John Cowper Powys gay or straight?
Straight
What is John Cowper Powys's ethnicity?
White
What is John Cowper Powys nationality?
Welsh
What is John Cowper Powys's occupation?
Author and lecturer
What genre is John Cowper Powys's work?
Novel, Poetry
Short Biography
John Cowper Powys (/ˌdʒɒn ˌkuːpər ˈpoʊ.ɪs/; 8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British novelist, lecturer, philosopher, literary critic, and poet. Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in 1915, he did not gain success as a writer until he published the novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He was influenced by many writers, but he has been particularly seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), along with Weymouth Sands (1934) and Maiden Castle (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels. As with Hardy's novels, the landscape plays a major role in Powys's works, and an elemental philosophy is important in the lives of his characters. In 1934 he published his important Autobiography. Powys was also a highly successful itinerant lecturer, first in England and then from 1905 until the early 1930s in the USA.