Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, England, in 1903. After attending Oxford University, he began his career as a journalist. With Stephen Spender he founded “Horizon” (1939-49), a small literary mag... Read more
Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, England, in 1903. After attending Oxford University, he began his career as a journalist. With Stephen Spender he founded “Horizon” (1939-49), a small literary magazine that reflected Connolly's own iconoclastic and mordant attitudes toward contemporary society. He also used his critical gifts as a long time book reviewer for “The New Statesman” and London's “Sunday Times.” Among his works are “Rock Pool” (1935), a satirical novel; “Enemies of Promise” (1938), an autobiography of ideas; “The Unquiet Grave” (1944), a potpourri of critical commentaries, quotations, and aphorisms; “The Condemned Playground” (1945) and “Previous Convictions” (1964), both collections of literary essays; and “The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books From England, France, and America, 1880-1950” (1965). He passed away in 1974.