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Simon Raven
Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence. His obituary in ''The Guardian'' noted that, "he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess.〔Barber, Guardian obit.〕
Among the many things said about him, perhaps the most quoted was that he had "the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel".〔This quotation was given prominence on many of the paperback editions of the novels, to promote sales〕 E W Swanton called Raven's cricket memoir ''Shadows on the Grass'' "the filthiest cricket book ever written". Typically, Raven's response to this was to ask Swanton's permission to quote this opinion on the book's jacket.〔To which Raven is said to have responded: "Can I quote you on that, Jim?" (Brooke Allen article)〕 He has also been called "cynical" and "cold-blooded", his characters "guaranteed to behave badly under pressure; most of them are vile without any pressure at all".〔DT obituary quoted by Martin in NY Times obit.〕 His unashamed credo was "a robust eighteenth-century paganism....allied to a deep contempt for the egalitarian code of post-war England"〔Brooke Allen article〕
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