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Anthony West (4 August 1914–27 December 1987) was a British author and literary critic. He was the son of British authors Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. Anthony West's best-known book is ''H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life'', a biography of his father. Born Anthony Panther West Fairfield, his parents never married, as Wells was already married to someone else, and remained so until after his intimate relationship with West ended (although they remained friends until his death in 1946). In 1955 he wrote a novel ''Heritage'', which was technically fiction, but which dealt with the trials of a boy who grows up largely neglected and ignored by his famous parents. This work was a thinly disguised autobiography (a ''roman à clef ''). In it, his mother appeared much worse than his father, whom he admired all his life. She fell out with him over it, famously threatening to sue if the book was published in Britain. It was not published in Britain until 1984, after she had died.〔Carl Rollyson, ''Rebecca West: A Life'', p. 427.〕 A critically lauded author, he wrote novels, essays, and nonfiction works, and reviewed books for ''The New Yorker'' from the 1950s until the late 1970s. He won the Houghton Mifflin Award for his novel ''The Vintage'' (1949) (published in Britain as ''On a Dark Night''), which Boucher and McComas praised as "a brilliantly terrifying exploration of the theme that each age creates its own peculiar species of hell and Devil".〔"Recommended Reading," ''F&SF'', Summer 1950, p. 107.〕 He is also known for works on history such as ''Elizabethan England'', and ''All About the Crusades''. ==Works== * (Amazon ) * (Amazon ) * (Amazon ) * (Amazon ) * (Amazon ) * (Amazon ) * Textbook * Illustrated by Carl Rose * * An examination of the dossiers of three noted 19th-century women, including Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, 1766–1817 * * * "The son of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West provides a biography of his father, chronicling the great English writer's rise to fame and fortune, his relationships with other famous people, and his numerous affairs". * "Richard Savage, the illegitimate son of a famous British author and a prominent stage actress, faces the difficulties of growing up in boarding schools and living with one parent at a time". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony West (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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