Richard Davenport-Hines

Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953) is a British writer, best known for his biography of the poet W. H. Auden.

He has taught at the London School of Economics, and began writing business history. He was the 1985 winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography. He now writes and reviews in a number of literary journals.

He has also written on the history of the Gothic. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.

Mr Davenport-Hines' son recently died at the age of 21.

Works

*"Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior" (1984)
*"Markets and Bagmen, Studies in the History of Marketing and British Industrial Performance, 1830 – 1939" (1986)
*"Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography" (1986)
*"Business in the Age of Reason" (1987) editor with Jonathan Liebenau
*"Enterprise Management and Innovation" (1988) with Geoffrey Jones
*"British Business in Asia Since 1860" (1989) editor with Geoffrey Jones
*"The End of Insularity - Essays in Comparative Business History" (1989) editor with Geoffrey Jones
*"Business in the Age of Depression & War" (1990) editor
*"Capital Entrepreneurs and Profits" (1990) editor
*"Sex , Death and Punishment: Attitudes To Sex & Sexuality In Britain Since The Renaissance " (1990)
*"Glaxo A History to 1962" (1992) with Judy Slinn
*"The Macmillans" (1992)
*"Vice - An Anthology" (1993) editor
*"Auden" (1995)
*"Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin" (1999: North Port Press. ISBN 0-86547-590-3, A voluminous, if somewhat patchy, chronological/aesthetic history of the Gothic covering the spectrum from Gothic architecture to The Cure.
*"The Pursuit of Oblivion: A global history of narcotics 1500-2000" (2001)
*"A Night at the Majestic" (2006), on Sydney Schiff's dinner of the talents