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J. B. Priestley
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English writer (1894–1984)
OverviewAI-generated
J. B. Priestley was a male author from the United Kingdom. He was born on 13 September 1894 and died on 14 August 1984. His professional career began in 1924. He also wrote under the pseudonym Peter Goldsmith.
Priestley’s body of work includes 313 recorded works. Notable titles include *Two time plays*, *Scenes of London life, from Sketches by Boz*, *Three plays and a preface*, and *Saturn Over The Water*. His writings have been referenced by 765 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 September 1894
- Died
- 14 August 1984
- Works
- 313
Top works
- Epilogue written by J.B. Priestley, spoken by Dame Sybil Thorndike, D.B.E. after the last performance of As you like it by Bristol Old Vic company at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, May 2nd, 1970
- Two time plays
- Scenes of London life, from Sketches by Boz
- Three plays and a preface
- Saturn Over The Water
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1894-09-13
- Active to
- 1984-08-14
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 165
- Total plays
- 418
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Theoretical Stress‐Strain Model for Confined Concrete
· 1988 · cited 7,011x
- On the Assessment of Surface Heat Flux and Evaporation Using Large-Scale Parameters
· 1972 · cited 4,848x
- Introduction to Lattices and Order
· 2002 · cited 1,634x
- Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
· 2021 · cited 1,539x
- Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges
· 1996 · cited 1,353x
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Quotes
- “Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.”
- “I suppose -- in the last resort -- you trust life -- or you don't. Well -- I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.”
- “I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.”
- “Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, Allan, it's us. Every step we've taken -- every tick of the clock -- making everything worse. If this is all life is, what's the use? Better to die, like carol, before you find it out, before Time gets to work on you. I've felt it before, Allan, but never as I've done tonight. There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time.”
- “But the point is, now, at this moment, or at any moment, we're only a cross-section of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us -- the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.”
- “Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1894-09-13 ) 13 September 1894, Manningham , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 14 August 1984 (1984-08-14) (aged 89), Alveston, Warwickshire , England
- Occupation
- Novelist playwright screenwriter broadcaster commentator
- Alma mater
- Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Period
- 20th century
- Spouse
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- Children
- 5, including Sylvia , Mary and Tom
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bradford
- Place of death
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Educated at
- Trinity Hall
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- British Army
- Official website
- jbpriestley.co.uk
- Image
- J. B. Priestley arrives in New York, 1931, Associated Press.png
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1894-09-13
- date of death
- 1984-08-14
- Commons category
- John Boynton Priestley
- name in kana
- ジョン・ボイントン・プリーストリー
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- start of work period
- 1924-00-00
- name in native language
- John Boynton Priestley
- pseudonym
- Peter Goldsmith
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- unmarried partner
- Peggy Ashcroft
- P12749
- Karl Möbius
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
John Boynton Priestley (/ˈpriːstli/; 13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.
His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “J. B. Priestley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.