A writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and criticism, John Barrington Wain was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to a dentist, Arnold A. Wain, and his wife, Anne. After attending high school ...
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John Wain's first novel, Hurry on Down (1953), along with Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954), seemed in the early 1950s to present a new type of hero--educated and impoverished, dissatisfied with conven...
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John Wain has achieved fame as a novelist, poet, critic, biographer, and short-story writer--in short, as a modern man of letters. Like his contemporaries Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Braine...
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Perhaps best known as a prolific novelist and poet, John Wain also gained acclaim as a critic and, within the last two decades, as a literary biographer. Wain's first volume of poetry, Mixed Feelings:...
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[This entry was updated by Dean Baldwin (Pennsylvania State University--Erie) from the entry by Augustus M. Kolich (Pennsylvania State University) in DLB 15: British Novelists, 1930-1959, the entry by...
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Biography EssayA writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and criticism, John Barrington Wain was born in Stokeon- Trent, Staffordshire, to a dentist, Arnold A. Wain, and his wife, Anne. After attendi...
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John (Barrington) Wain
John Wain
