A detailed biography of J. B. Priestley that includes images, quotations and the main facts of his life. Key Stage 3. GCSE British History. A-level. Last updated: 14th August 2022
J. B. Priestley John Boynton Priestley was born in 1894 in Bradford, a city in the north of England, in what he famously described as an "ultra respectable" suburb, perhaps not too dissimilar from Brumley, the aspiring middle-class town in which the Birlings of An Inspector Calls reside....
J.B. Priestley. Writer: Last Holiday. John Boynton Priestley is one of England's greatest writers--he was a member of the last generation of freethinking British "sages" who contemplated both science and philosophy in their literary output. His books hav
Cash, Johnny,1932–2003, American singer and songwriter, b. Kingsland, Ark. Born to a farm family, he went to Memphis in 1955 and recorded such hits as “I Walk the Line” (1956) and “Ring of Fire” (1963); the latter was written with his second wife, singer June Carter Cash of...
Priestley's phenomenal success he became one of the richest writers of his age, along with Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward - was based on a deep and hard-won knowledge of the human heart.Born in 1894, he signed on as a private at the outbreak of World War I and was in the trenches...
Bradford based poet and showman Glyn Watkins shares a birthdate with Bradford born J.B. Priestley and has been celebrating with a one man show of Priestley readings for decades. The show celebrates Priestley and a Bradford meat & potato pie shop that he made world famous on a BBC broadcast...
PROF. JOSEPH HUBERT PRIESTLEY died at Leeds on October 31 at the age of sixty-one. He was born at Tewkesbury in 1883 and educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School (of which his father was headmaster) and at University College, Bristol. He was a graduate of the University of London and, in...
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He also composed for the stage, including the musicals Lock Up Your Daughters (1959) and The Four Musketeers (1967), and for films, another musical, The Good Companions (1957), after J.B. Priestley's "showbiz" novel of 1929 Johnson, Lonniemore... Johnson, Marcmore... Johnson, ...
PRICE, ROBERT T(HOMAS). 1935-2014. Born in Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland. (Adding the death date and biographical details for the author of two 1990s novels in CFIV.) PRIESTLEY, (CLIVE) BRIAN. Son of Clive Ryland Priestley, 1891-1973. (Adding a biographical detail for the author of two ...