David Pownall (born 1938) is a critically acclaimed and prize-winning author of plays, novels and short stories. Pownall graduated from Keele in 1960, in English and history. He had decided by the age of 15 that he was going to be a writer, but it was 10 years, and a period in Personnel with the Ford Motor Company, before he entered the first full phase of his writing life. He was the co-founder of Paines Plough, received the title of Doctor of Letters, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1976. Pownall lives with his family on the English borders of Gloucestershire.
Selected works
- All the World Should Be Taxed
- As We Lie
- An Audience Called Edouard
- Barricade
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beef
- Black Star
- Buck Ruxton
- Crates on Barrels
- Death of a Faun
- Dinner Dance
- The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse
- The Edge
- Elgar's Rondo
- Elgar's Third
- Gaunt
- Getting the Picture
- The Hot Hello
- How Does the Cukoo Learn To Fly?
- How to Grow a Guerrilla
- The Human Cartoon Show
- King John's Jewel
- Ladybird, Ladybird
- The Last of the Wizards
- Later
- Lile Jimmy Williamson
- Lions and Lambs
- Livingstone and Sechele
- Master Class
- Motocar
- Music to Murder By
- My Father's House
- Nijinsky: Death of a Faun
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Pro
- Richard III, Part Two
- Rousseau's Tale
- Seconds at the Fight for Madrid
- A Tale of Two Town Halls
- The Viewing
