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   Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter. He is known for his louche lifestyle as much as for his literary output. Expelled from Charterhouse School, he was commissioned in the infantry in National service, before studying at King's College ...

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   • Died: 12 May 2001 (aged 73), London, England

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   May 16, 2001 · Simon Arthur Noël Raven, writer and dramatist, born December 28 1927; died May 12 2001. The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after ...

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   Apr 3, 2024 · Simon Raven (born December 28, 1927, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died May 12, 2001, London) was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, known particularly for his satiric portrayal of the hedonism of the mid-20th-century upper classes of English society.

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   • Simon Raven, English novelist, playwright, and journalist, known particularly for his satiric portrayal of the hedonism of the mid-20th-century upper classes of English society. Raven was educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, and King’s College, Cambridge. He resigned as an officer in the British army

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   • Simon Arthur Noël Raven, writer and dramatist, born December 28 1927; died May 12 2001 The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after his own. He ought, by rights, to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50. Instead, he survived to produce 25 novels.

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   Who was Simon Arthur Noel Raven?

   • Max Cosman in Commonweal called him a combination of Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell and A. Conan Doyle. Simon Arthur Noel Raven was born in London on Dec. 28, 1927. His father played golf and spent his own father's fortune, while his mother was a cross-country runner who was once the second-fastest woman in England.

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   • TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Simon Raven, whose 36 novels provided a highly personalized, exceedingly hedonistic vision of the English upper classes, died Saturday at a London hospital. He was 73. The cause was not announced, the Associated Press reported.

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   Simon Raven was an prolific English author known for writing literary fiction. The London born author attended Charterhouse and was infamously expelled for homosexual activity in 1945. However, he has claimed that his games master had seduced him when he was just nine and that it was an unalloyed, pleasurable experience.

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   May 17, 2001 · Simon Arthur Noel Raven was born in London on Dec. 28, 1927. His father played golf and spent his own father's fortune, while his mother was a cross-country runner who was once the second-fastest ...

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9. www.theguardian.com › theobserver › commentisfreeMay I have a word about… the magnificently raffish Simon Raven

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   Aug 23, 2020 · I have recently been happily occupied rereading Simon Raven ’s magnificent Alms for Oblivion suite of novels and then his novella, The Islands of Sorrow, a signed first edition and a most ...

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    are not for everyone, they attract certain passionate partisans. One cult figure, the English novelist, journalist, and television. writer Simon Raven (1927–2001), did not reach a mass audience or. even attain a very broad readership among the upper middle class. and the intelligentsia; but then, he never exerted himself very.