Curtis, Anthony

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CURTIS, Anthony

CURTIS, Anthony. British, b. 1926. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Sunday Telegraph, London, literary ed., 1961-69; Financial Times, London, freelance writer and reviewer, 1990- (literary ed., 1970-90). Publications: New Developments in the French Theatre: Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir and Anouilh, 1948; The Pattern of Maugham, 1974; Somerset Maugham, 1977; Spillington and the Whitewash Clowns, 1981; Somerset Maugham (Writers and Their Work), 1982; Before Bloomsbury: The 1890s Diaries of Three Kensington Ladies, 2002. EDITOR: (and contrib.) The Rise and Fall of the Matinee Idol, 1974; (with J. Whitehead) Somerset Maugham: The Critical Heritage, 1987; W.S. Maugham, The Nonesuch Storytellers, 1990; (lit. ed.) On Reviewing and Reviewers, 1998. Address: 9 Essex Villas, London W8 7BP, England. Online address: anticurtis@aol.com

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