Barbara Comyns

Barbara ComynsThis biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society.

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McKay—who grew up in Jamaica—captures the life of African Americans from a realist’s point of view

Contributors work in a range of such fields

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considered by many to be America's greatest writer

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Adapted repeatedly to film and television

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Luke Hockley probes questions such as why we have genuine emotional responses to film events we know to be fictional

here reproduces three prominent examples of the company’s early work and contextualizes these plays in the wider tradition and recent history of British political theatre