V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) was an English short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, travel writer, biographer, and autobiographer. Though not an innovator in terms of style, he was nevertheless an interesting and highly competent writer...

Literary journalists and reviewers of the past ten to fifteen years have been referring to V. S. Pritchett more and more frequently as "the Grand Old Man of British letters." The highly favorable, prominently placed, and usually lengthy reviews that foll...

Victor Sawdon (V. S.) Pritchett is an eminent man of letters who has published extensively in different genres; his work includes five novels; numerous volumes of short stories, many of which have been published in prominent journals over the last fifty...

CHEKHOV. A Spirit Set Free, by V. S. Pritchett. Random House. 235 pp. $17.95. The last published story of the late Raymond Carver, written under the sentence of a diagnosis of cancer, concerned the death of Anton Chekhov. The scene in a Black...

LASTING IMPRESSIONS Essays 1961-1987 By V. S. Pritchett Random House, 171 pages, $19.95 On Dec. 16, Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett celebrated his 90th birthday. The author's note to this invigorating collection describes him as "one of the great men of 20th...