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In his memoir, As I Walked Down New Grub Street (1981), English novelist and critic Walter Allen offers a set of recollections that is perhaps a little closer to popcorn than steak in terms of substance. Not that Allen was not a solid and serious writer. Raised in a lower middle class household in Birmingham, his roots were more in the factories and mines than in the quads or cricket fields. Unable to win an Oxford scholarship, he had to settle for one to his hometown university, and forever after chafed against the innate bias in favor of Oxbridge held by much of the English literary establishment of his time.Graduating in the midst of the Depression, Allen fought against the tide and insisted in making his way as a working writer. Although he eventually took academic jobs to keep from starving, but the time of the Second World War, he had made it to London. There, as a long-time member of the staff of The New Statesman as well as a novelist in his own right, he came to know many of the best writers of his generation, including L. P. Hartley, Joyce Cary, and Graham Greene. Greene was the best-known of them, and Allen was at first a bit of an imitator. He was fascinated by Greene’s

Author

Walter Ernest Allen

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226014333

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography