Laurence Lerner

Laurence (David) Lerner (born 12 December 1925) is a South African born British literary critic and poet and novelist.

He was born in Cape Town to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, and educated at the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

He was lecturer in English, University College of the Gold Coast, 1949-53, tutor then lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast, 1953-62, lecturer then reader then professor of English, University of Sussex 1962-84 and professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1985-95. He was also a Governor of Leighton Park School, the Quaker school in England.

He was at one point associated with the group of poets known as The Movement.

ee also

*List of South Africans
*List of Jews from Sub-Saharan Africa
*List of British Jews