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Humphrey Carpenter is the award-winning author of biographies of Dennis Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Ezra Pound. He broadcasts regularly on BBC radio. Carpenter is married with two children and lives in Oxford, England — biography from A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s… (more)
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W. H. Auden: A Biography 155 copies, 2 reviews
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Introduction, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 7,459 copies, 285 reviews
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