About our contributors:
ANGUS MAUDE
Rugby and Oriel, Oxford and various pris- oner-of-war camps. MP for eight years rep- resenting Ealing South, then fled the country to Australia to escape politics; then returned to represent Stratford-on-Avon for seven years. Went to Australia to edit Sydney Morning Herald. Best-known book—co- author of The English Middle Classes, and most recent book The Common Problem— his political testament.
KINGSLEY AMIS
City of London School, scholarship boy, exhibition to St. John's Oxford. Just finish- ing a novel and most recent book What Be- came of Jane Austen. Sporadic but deter- mined poet with small but definite output (six poems a year). Three books of poems published, with (I) Reading School of Art. (2) Gollancz and (3) in 1967 by Cape. All but three of poems in first book published in second. Next one expected in 1978. Some- times wishes he had been a musician (but never learnt the piano)—a keen total amat- eur. Would have preferred to have Written a concerto or sonata than literature—but been too late for thirty-five years. Novel is about a musician who is good but loses his integrity. Expert on hangovers and how to get them,
HENRY FAIRLIE
Currently in Washington. Left Oxford after the war (having missed the army for heart and flat feet). Leader writer for Guardian and subsequently Times, and political cor- respondent of SPECTATOR (in the 50's) during which time he popularised the notion of the Establishment. Distinguished himself on the Mail by missing Khrushchev's Paris Sum- mit (failing to get there before Khrushchev called it off). Author of The Life of Politics (Heinemann). and now completing a book on the Supreme Court.
BENNY GREEN
Professional jazz musician for fifteen years. playing the saxophone with Ronnie Scott and Stan Kenton. Retired through old age at thirty-two. fed up with travelling. Ob- server jazz critic since 1958 and BBC record reviewer since 1959. The Reluctant Art (1962) of jazz criticism (essays). Two novels. written since Blame it on My Youth (1967) and 58 Minutes to London both published by MacGibbon and Kee (1969). Three books in progress simultaneously. Books and lyrics of musical of Bernard Shaw's life Boots -with Strawberry Jam (1968): Music with John Dankworth. with whom now working on musical hopefully for Nottingham Play- house in 1971. TV series include Three After Six and Jazz at the Mailings. Born in Leeds and demanded to leave three weeks later— moved to London and has been living there ever since until recent move to Hertford- shire.
RICHARD WILLSON
Born in 1939, educated at Epsom College. Studied architecture initially but bored by drains and window frames. Fired by Dau- mier's Exhibition and Lautrec Museum at Albi. Took the plunge into freelance illus- tration. Sank like a stone financially (despite portrait of Laurence Olivier and numerous books) but finally surfaced again with first drawings in Observer and SPECTATOR in 1968..
Initially autodidact (or reader). Music- lover and Lonely Long Distance Walker.
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