Called by some the last "sage" of English literature, J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) had a career which spanned more than 60 years and included authoring novels, essays, plays, and screenplays. John Boynton Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in...

J. B. Priestley's writing career spanned more than seventy years and covered many genres. After war service and Cambridge he became a prolific literary journalist, throughout the 1920s collecting his essays in more or less annual volumes; established...

J. B. Priestley , who demonstrated mastery of several literary genres, was an English man of letters who preferred to be thought of as a professional writer practicing a time-honored craft. Assessing himself as a "fertile but careless" writer,...

It may seem perverse to deny posterity to J B Priestley when, as I write, Stephen Daldry's much-lauded, award-winning production of An Inspector Calls is still running in the West End. Yet there, precisely, is the rub. It's the production that has been lauded,...

JB Priestley described his 1939 play Johnson Over Jordan as "an adventure in theatre". It turned out to be an adventure offstage as well as on. The piece was both his most searchingly experimental stage work and - in its original production starring Ralph...

Theatrical and literary agents are taking leading roles in a corporate drama in London, resigning one after another from a major agency and threatening to take their clients with them.The exodus from PFD Group Ltd., a leading international literary and talent agency, could be a...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2007. There are 67 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men,...