Jonathan Raban
British writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jonathan Mark Hamilton Priaulx Raban was a British award-winning travel writer, playwright, critic, and novelist. Background Jonathan Raban was born on 14 June 1942 in Norfolk. He was son of Monica Raban and the Rev Canon J. Peter C.P. Raban, whom he did not actually meet until he was three. He was sent to boarding school at the age of five. He was educated at King's School, Worcester, where like his father he was unhappy but discovered the comforting value of literature. He went on to study English at Hull University, where he became friends with the poet Philip Larkin. He supported himself by teaching English and American Literature.
Jonathan Raban's Published Works
Published Works
- The Oxford Book of the Sea (2002) (34)
- Bad Land: An American Romance (1996) (31)
- Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (1999) (18)
- Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990) (15)
- The technique of modern fiction: Essays in practical criticism (1970) (14)
- The society of the poem (1971) (12)
- The Truth About Terrorism (2005) (11)
- Arabia Through the Looking Glass (1979) (9)
- For love & money : writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987 (1987) (7)
- Arabia, a Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) (7)
- Robert Lowell's Poems: A Selection (1974) (4)
- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn (1968) (3)
- Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America (1990) (2)
- The Threat from the Sea (2004) (2)
- Thinking about Documentary: Notes toward a Lecture (2005) (2)
- Cigarette Smoking and Flu (1970) (2)
- The Prisoners Speak (2006) (2)
- September 11: The View from the West (2005) (1)
- The City as Melodrama (2016) (1)
- Old Glory : a voyage down the Mississippi (1998) (1)
- The New Philip Roth@@@When She Was Good (1969) (1)
- My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front (2005) (1)
- Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition (1966) (1)
- Re: Radiology in Nepal. (1996) (0)
- Earlier proposals for a specific role for prosody in templatic morphology include McCarthy (1993) (0)
- The Best of Granta travel (1991) (0)
- Just Two Clicks (2008) (0)
- Belt, Boots and Spurs (2017) (0)
- Foreign Land: A Novel (1985) (0)
- The view from a literary dumpster (1993) (0)
- God, man, & Mrs Thatcher (1989) (0)
- Chance, Time and Silence: the New American Verse (1969) (0)
- 'Granny in the Doorway': A Memoir (2017) (0)
- Circle the letter of the CMS bibliography entry that is handled correctly. Example (2009) (0)
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