David Holbrook
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David Kenneth Holbrook (9 January 1923 – August 11, 2011) was a British writer, poet, and academic.
He served as an Emeritus Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1989 to 2001.
Life
In 1923, David Holbrook was born in Norwich. He was educated at City of Norwich School and gained a scholarship to study English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis. He is often referred to as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was less formal than this (and also ended angrily, although this is a minor hint). Holbrook was called up for military service with the British Army in 1942 and spent as an officer with the East Riding Yeomanry until 1945. His book Flesh Wounds (1966) is a lightly fictionalized account of his D-Day campaign with the East Riding Yeomanry.
In 1945, he returned to Downing to finish his degree, which he did in 1947. He made a horrific visit to George Orwell on Jura in 1946. Orwell's housekeeper, Susan Watson, was on the phone with Holbrook's participation in the Communist Party of Great Britain, but Orwell assumed it was connected with his mother's identity and gave him a frosty reception.
He became an editor with Edgell Rickword of the communist cultural periodical Our Time after Cambridge. He began teaching positions with the Workers' Educational Association and then a secondary school in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. In the early 1960s, he became a full-time writer. He also maintained links with the University of Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, in 1981, and an Emeritus Fellow of Downing in 1988.
In October 1995, the Associated University Presses celebrated his seventieth birthday by releasing a festschrift titled Powers of Being. Edwin Webb, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, has edited the book of essays, and there have been contributions from sixteen academics and teachers from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, as well as a portrait by Boris Ford. He wrote about literature, culture, and education, as well as writing his poetry and novels in over thirty years. His distinguished literary accomplishments are lauded.
He was a Fellow of the English Association.