Barbara Pym
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Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Born | Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913-06-02)2 June 1913 Oswestry, Shropshire, England |
Died | 11 January 1980(1980-01-11) (aged 66) |
Resting place | Holy Trinity churchyard, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England |
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