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Literary Encounters of a Lifetime

Encounter Books
David Pryce-Jones
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Age range 18+

In this book, David Pryce-Jones discusses a collection of works personally given to him by famous authors, including W.H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Bernard Berenson, and Isaiah Berlin, among others.

Contributor Bio

David Pryce-Jones was born in Vienna in 1936 and studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford. His career has included spells teaching creative writing in Iowa and in California, as well as being a special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph covering international assignments such as the Middle East wars of 1967 and 1973. He has written ten novels and twelve books of nonfiction, his most recent being Fault Lines. Since 1999, he has been a senior editor of National Review.