Ivor Brown
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Ivor John Carnegie Brown (25 April 1891 – 22 April 1974) was a British journalist and man of letters.
Early career
Brown spent two days as a civil servant in the Home Office in 1913 before realizing he was unfit for the job and resigned to become a freelance writer, one of the highest honors on the civil service examination. He was active in left-wing politics at the time and was a conscient critic during the First World War. Despite the fact that he began authoring books at this time, his ability to write quickly and on a variety of topics prompted him to pursue a career in journalism. He began writing for The New Age and was offered a job in The Manchester Guardian's London office in 1919.
Brown, although his contributions to a variety of fields, had a special passion for theatre. He began writing drama for the Saturday Review in 1923 and was named Shute lecturer in the art of the theatre at Liverpool University three years later. Brown became a drama critic for The Observer in 1929. He rose to prominence and insightful drama critic in the British press in the decade that followed, a role he assumed in 1939 with his appointment as professor of drama in the Royal Society of Literature and as director of drama for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts.
Brown displayed a definite lack of desire to adhere to fashionable literary and cultural conventions. Some of his best writings are beautifully designed and often comedic polemics on modern poetry, music, and manners. In such publications as I Commit to the Flames, for example, he is particularly concerned about Eliot and Pound: this can be seen (sometimes with a startling effect on today's reader): In those works as I Commit to the Flames, where, for example, he is especially concerned about Eliot and Pound: a startling message on today's reader).
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Brown had a particular passion for Shakespeare, releasing several books about his life and work, as well as one on the poet's love life. In 1937, he wrote a play about Shakespeare's missing love Anne Whateley, published in 1947, and then broadcast on the BBC in 1953, with Irene Worth portraying Anne and John Gregson as Shakespeare.
Brown demonstrated an interest in grammar and the use of words from his early writings. His 1920s essay "Winning Out," which appeared in The Saturday Review, barely debates an emerging trend in America is shifting to adorn verbs with prepositions. Brown went on to write an extremely popular series of fifteen books on the subject of how words are used and drew attention to peculiar features of language use with humor and charm.
After 34 years as editor of The Observer, J. L. Garvin was forced out in February 1942 because of a political feud with the paper's founder, Waldorf Astor. Brown was appointed Garvin's successor in August after a string of temporary editors. With the addition of new writers, many of whom were talented émigrés from the United States, and a radical shift from an independent conservative viewpoint to a more liberal one, Waldorf's uncle, David Astor, was leading the paper at the time. Brown's appointment was widely viewed as short-term, with Astor in the wings to replace him and others doing as many of the duties as editor as his war service allowed. Brown, who was uneasy with some of the new writers' writings (possibly because of his growing political conservatism), departed from Astor and the paper's assistant editor, Donald Tyerman, and concentrated on the paper's coverage of cultural issues. Brown continued as editor until David Astor officially succeeded him in 1948, after which he continued as The Observer's drama critic until he was replaced by Kenneth Tynan in 1954.
Brown spent his remaining years writing books rather than on poetry. He would eventually publish more than 75 books on a variety of subjects and genres, but he was best known for his books on literature and the English language. He served as chairman of the British Drama League from 1954 to 1962, as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and he was named a CBE in 1957. In 1974, he died in London.