Humphrey Carpenter, 1946-2005
"A perceptive biographer and engaging broadcaster with a deep love of music and the imaginative world of the child".Very sad news. He will be sorely missed.
The Independent
Humphrey Carpenter was the master of the group biography. His best books were works of cultural history that yoked together the lives of a dozen or so literary figures, and examined how their lives intertwined and how their work shared certain themes and obsessions.
The Guardian
Although born into the British establishment, there was nothing pompous or stereotyped about Humphrey, who has died aged 58, and this made him such a telling and refreshing biographer. His father, the Rev Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College, and Humphrey recalled as a small boy roaming the gothic vastness of the lodgings and college on his tricycle, terrorising the undergraduates and bursar in what he described as "a wonderful Gormenghast existence".
I really don't know how I would've lived through my senior thesis without him. (And I watched him on the extended edition of The Return of the King only this weekend.)
Other obits:
Daily Telegraph
BBC
posted by amcorrea @ 1/06/2005 09:33:00 PM
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