John Wain
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John Barrington Wain CBE (14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the "Moment" literary group.
He worked as a freelance journalist and author for the majority of his life, writing and reviewing for newspapers and radio.
Life and education
Wain was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, with the son of a dentist, Arnold Wain, and his partner, Anne Turner. Noel had an older sister and a younger brother. After attending Newcastle under Lyme High School, he enrolled in St. John's College, Oxford, gaining his first in his BA degree and an MA in 1950. Between 1946 and 1949, he was a Fereday Fellow of St John's. Wain married Marianne Uffenheimer (born 1923 or 1924) on July 4th, 1947, but the couple divorced in 1956. Eirian Mary James (1920-1980-1980), deputy head of the British Council's recorded sound department, married her on January 1, 1960. They had three children and lived mainly in Wolvercote, Oxford. In 1989, Wain married Patricia Adams (born 1942 or 1943), an art teacher. He died in Oxford on May 24th, 1994.
Literary career
In 1953, Wain published Hurry on Down, a comedic picaresque story about an unhappy university graduate who defies the norms of conventional life. Strike the Father (1962), a story of a jazzman's rebellion against his conventional father, and Young Shoulders (1982), the Whitbread Prize winner, in which a young boy wrestles with the death of loved ones.
Wain was also a prolific writer and critic, with critical books on Arnold Bennett, Samuel Johnson (winning him the 1974 James Tait Black Memorial Award) and Shakespeare. Theodore Roethke and Edmund Wilson, two Americans, were among those on whom he wrote. David Gerard's bibliography included him.
Academic career
Wain taught at the University of Reading in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in 1963, he served as a professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. He was the first fellow in the creative arts at Brasenose College (1971-1972) and was named a supernumerary fellow in 1973. In the same year he was elected to the University of Oxford's Professor of Poetry, Professing Poetry: some of his lectures appear in his book Professing Poetry. In 1984, Wain was named a CBE. In 1985, he was named an honorary fellow of his old college, St John's, Oxford.