![]() He was also a practitioner in, and an enthusiast for, painting and music.Īway from the arts Priestley played many roles as a political activist and commentator a campaigner for nuclear disarmament and public lending right a cultural ambassador and a student of time and of dreams. But he was undoubtedly the most versatile writer of his time, producing essays, short stories, verse, literary criticism, social histories, travel books and film scripts, as well as an opera libretto and an autobiography. Many of his works have become 20th century literary classics, among them 'The Good Companions', 'Angel Pavement', 'Lost Empires', 'When We are Married', 'An Inspector Calls' and 'Time and the Conways'. ![]() John Boynton Priestley was pre-eminently a dramatist and a novelist. ![]()
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