1911 - 1968
Mervyn Peake British Novelist
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First Name |
Mervyn
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Last Name |
Peake
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Birthday |
9th July, 1911
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Birthplace |
Kuling, Jiangxi, China
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Died |
17th November, 1968
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Place of Death |
Burcot, Oxfordshire, England
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Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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Nationality |
British
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Occupation Text |
writer, artist, poet, illustrator
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Occupation |
Novelist
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Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.