John Wain

John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement. For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.

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Wain was born and brought up in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and attended St. John's College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1946 and M.A. in 1950. He wrote his first novel Hurry on Down in 1953, a comic picaresque about an unsettled university graduate who turns his life against conventional society. Other notable novels include Strike the father dead (1962), a tale of a jazzman's rebellion against his conventional father, and Young shoulders (1982), winner of the Whitbread Prize, the searing tale of a young boy facing the death of loved ones. Wain's use of lower-case letters in the titles of his novels indicates his non-conventional manner.

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