- Angela Huth
Angela Huth (born 1938) is an English
novel ist and journalist.Personal life and career
Huth is the daughter of the actor
Harold Huth . She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England to work on a variety of newspapers and magazines. She married the journalist and travel writerQuentin Crewe in the 1960s and with him had a daughter, Candida. She presented programmes on theBBC , including "How It Is and Why" and "Man Alive".She is now most recognised as a successful writer. She has written three collections of short stories and eleven novels, including "Land Girls", which was made into the 1998 feature film "The Land Girls" starring
Rachel Weisz andAnna Friel . She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. Her play "The Understanding" ran at the Strand Theatre in 1982 and starredRalph Richardson andJoan Greenwood .Huth recently edited a collection of eulogies, "Well-Remembered Friends", including Seamus Heaney on Ted Hughes, Martin Amis on Kingsley Amis, and Alan Bennett on Peter Cook. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She has been married to a don,
James Howard-Johnston , since 1978. They live inOxfordshire and have one daughter,Eugenie Howard-Johnston .Quotes about Huth
:"Huth inhabits all the lonely people with great compassion and makes them seem unbearably poignant. But she balances delicately, introducing comedy at awful, unlikely moments… Her eye for detail sometimes makes me think of
Alan Bennett ." —The Daily Telegraph :"Huth has an eye for perfect short-story material… She demonstrates an enviable ability to capture in small vignettes the very English quality of 'hanging on in quiet desperation'… A full technicolour storyteller who clearly enjoys herself." —
The Spectator External links
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2005/09/20/htap18.xml A recent article in the 'Daily Telegraph' on tap-dancing]
* [http://www.st-giles-church.org/angela_huth.htm Angela Huth information] from St Giles' Church
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