John Gardner
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor (1933–1982)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 November 1926
- Died
- 3 August 2007
- Works
- 261
Top works
- Classroom X-Factor
- Classroom X-Factor
- Grendel (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Ian Fleming's James Bond back in action
- Ian Fleming's master spy James Bond in Nobody lives forever
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- Total plays
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John Linton Gardner, CBE (born March 2, 1917) was an English composer of classical music. Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War. His mother, Emily Muriel Pullein-Thompson, was the sister of Captain Harold J "Cappy" Pullein-Thompson, who was the father of the Pullein-Thompson sisters and their brother, the playwright
Key dates
- Born
- 21 July 1933
- Died
- 14 September 1982
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Gardner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Batavia
- Place of death
- Susquehanna River
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- DePauw University
- Employer
- University of Detroit Mercy
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Categories
1933 births1982 deaths20th-century American essayists20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelistsAmerican academics of English literatureAmerican children's writersAmerican fantasy writersAmerican literary criticsAmerican male essayistsAmerican male novelistsCalifornia State University, Chico faculty