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Richard Francis
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Pisze książki: literatura obyczajowa, romans
Urodzony: 1945 (data przybliżona)
was born in Hampshire in 1945 and spent my childhood in Gosport, and then in Alsager in Cheshire. I read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge and during my third year married Jo. We have two children, William and Helen.
I did a PhD on the social thinking of the New England Transcendentalists at Exeter University, and spent two years as an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard (much later that research became the basis for my book Transcendental Utopias). When we came back to the UK I took up a post as lecturer in American literature at Manchester University, and we lived in Stockport for many years, the setting for a number of my novels (though I sometimes call it Costford). My first novel, Blackpool Vanishes, was published in 1979. So far I have published eleven novels and four books of non-fiction. We lived in Shropshire for three years (I commuted to Manchester),spent a year in Libya (I taught at the University of Tripoli while on unpaid leave from Manchester) and another in the States (where I was an exchange professor at the University of Missouri). During my time at Missouri I had the chance to do some creative writing teaching and when I returned to the American Studies department at Manchester University in the late eighties, I began giving undergraduate workshops in tandem with the poet and publisher Michael Schmidt, who lectured in the English department. In 1993 we set up an MA in Novel Writing. From 1999 to 2009 I was Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where I taught on the MA and supervised PhDs in creative writing. I am now Emeritus Professor there. I alternate between writing novels and non-fiction (biographies and works about the history of American culture). I have also written for TV and radio and been a regular contributor to, and presenter of, arts programmes on Radio 3 and 4.https://richardfrancis.wordpress.com/about/
I did a PhD on the social thinking of the New England Transcendentalists at Exeter University, and spent two years as an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard (much later that research became the basis for my book Transcendental Utopias). When we came back to the UK I took up a post as lecturer in American literature at Manchester University, and we lived in Stockport for many years, the setting for a number of my novels (though I sometimes call it Costford). My first novel, Blackpool Vanishes, was published in 1979. So far I have published eleven novels and four books of non-fiction. We lived in Shropshire for three years (I commuted to Manchester),spent a year in Libya (I taught at the University of Tripoli while on unpaid leave from Manchester) and another in the States (where I was an exchange professor at the University of Missouri). During my time at Missouri I had the chance to do some creative writing teaching and when I returned to the American Studies department at Manchester University in the late eighties, I began giving undergraduate workshops in tandem with the poet and publisher Michael Schmidt, who lectured in the English department. In 1993 we set up an MA in Novel Writing. From 1999 to 2009 I was Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where I taught on the MA and supervised PhDs in creative writing. I am now Emeritus Professor there. I alternate between writing novels and non-fiction (biographies and works about the history of American culture). I have also written for TV and radio and been a regular contributor to, and presenter of, arts programmes on Radio 3 and 4.https://richardfrancis.wordpress.com/about/
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