David holbrooke biography
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David Holbrook
British writer, poet and academic
David Kenneth Holbrook (9 January 1923 – 11 August 2011)[1] was a British writer, poet and academic.
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From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
Life
David Holbrook was born in Norwich in 1923. He was educated at City of Norwich School and won a scholarship to study English at Downing College, Cambridge for a year in 1941, where he was a pupil of F.
R. Leavis. He is sometimes identified as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was slighter than this might suggest (and also ended angrily, though this is a lesser indication). Holbrook was called up for military service with the British Army in 1942 and served until 1945 as an officer with the East Riding Yeomanry.
David holbrooke biography
His novel Flesh Wounds (1966) is a lightly fictionalised account of his D-Day campaign experiences. In 1945 he returned to Downing to complete his degree, which he did in 1947. In 1946 he made a bleak visit to George Orwell on