P. N. Furbank

Philip Nicholas Furbank FRSL (born 1920) is an English writer,^[1] scholar and critic, and a professor (now emeritus) of the Open University.

Works

He is known for significant biographies, including E. M. Forster: A Life (1977/8), and Diderot: A Critical Biography (1992), which won a Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. He has also edited the works of Daniel Defoe and made major contributions to the question of attributions to Defoe in A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe, The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe, and A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe all written with W. R. Owens, in addition to many others on aspects of Defoe.

He was a friend of Alan Turing, becoming his Executor, and now general editor of Turing's collected works. He is also known also as a reviewer.

Furbank's other books include one the poet Mallarmé and the painter Poussin, Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer (1966)^[2] and Behalf (1999) on political thought.^[3]

References

• Faber & Faber page

Notes

1. ^ Joseph, Epstein (October 10, 1971). "Maurice; By E. M. Forster. 256 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. $6.95. Maurice". New York Times: p. BR1. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F0061EF8345B137A93C2A8178BD95F458785F9. Retrieved 20 May 2011. "PN Furbank, who is preparing his biography, tells us that Forster felt large ...." 
2. ^ Sections of Italo Stevo on books.google.com Retrieved 6 January 2011
3. ^ Sections of Behalf on books.google.com Retrieved 6 January 2011

External links

• List of works by Furbank on worldcat.org Retrieved on 6 January 2011
• Misreading Gulliver's Travels

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