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Jon Silkin
Jon Silkin (December 2, 1930 – November 25, 1997) was a British poet.
==Early life==
Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in ''The Forsyte Saga'',〔H.C.G. Matthew, Brian Howard Harrison, (2004), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy'', (Oxford University Press)〕 and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College〔British Museum, Jenny Lewis, Arts Council of Great Britain, (1967), ''Poetry in the Making: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum'', page 56, (Turret Books for the Arts Council of Great Britain and the British Museum)〕 During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London (in his case, to Wales); he remembered that he "roamed the countryside incessantly" while in Wales, collecting "fool's gold" and exploring old Roman mines.〔Jon Silkin, ''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series,'' Vol. 5. Gale., p. 250〕 For a period of about six years in the 1950s, after National Service, he supported himself by manual labour and other menial jobs. By 1956 he rented the top-floor flat at 10, Compayne Gardens, Hampstead, (), the house of Bernice Rubens, who later won the Booker Prize, and her husband Rudolph Nassauer, also a published novelist, later. Silkin, in turn, sublet rooms to, among others, David Mercer, later a prolific TV and West End dramatist, and Malcolm Ross-Macdonald, then a diploma student at the Slade and later a novelist; his first novel, ''The Big Waves'' (Cape, 1962) is a ''roman à clef'' of life in that flat, in which Silkin features as Somes Arenstein. All three men lived by teaching English as a Foreign Language at the St Giles School of English in Oxford Street.
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