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Prideaux James

Date of birth and time Aug 29, 1927 , 19:18:00

  • Zodiac Sign Virgo
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  • Zodiac Sign Leo
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  • Zodiac Sign Aquarius
    Lagan
  • Rodden Rating: AA

Remembering Since 2015

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Work : Prize 1973 (Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright)

Death:Death by Disease 18 November 2015 (Stroke, age 88) chart Placidus Equal_H.

Ai Generated Biography Prideaux James Biography

American playwright, known for The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, which depicts the final 17 years of Mary Todd Lincolns life that follow her husbands assassination. The play won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright in 1973. He also wrote Postcards, Lemonade, and The Orphans. Moving to television, he wrote The Secret Storm. He became friends with Katharine Hepburn, who acted in many of his films, such as Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986), Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988), and The Man Upstairs (1992). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie for producing Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry. In 1996, he published his memoirs Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences. He died of a stroke in West Hills, Los Angeles on 18 November 2015, aged 88. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less

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Prideaux James

British biographer, literary critic, and novelist

BIOGRAPHY

  • Born August 29, 1927 in South Bend, Indiana, USA
  • Son of Henry Prideaux James, a British diplomat, and Margaret McIlvaine, an American heiress
  • Educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge
  • Served in the British Army during World War II
  • Married to Norah Smallwood in 1951
  • Had two children, a daughter and a son
  • Died on September 29, 2005 in London, England

CAREER

  • Worked as a journalist and literary critic for The Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman
  • Published his first novel, "The Vineyard," in 1954
  • Wrote several biographies of famous writers, including Henry James, William Faulkner, and Evelyn Waugh
  • Also wrote several novels and short stories
  • Received the Whitbread Prize for Biography in 1987 for his biography of Henry James

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RECENT PROJECTS

  • Edited a new edition of Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"
  • Wrote an introduction to a new edition of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited"

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