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King, Francis

Francis King was a British novelist, poet and short story writer. He worked for the British Council in four countries over 25 years. He published more than 30 novels across six decades, and was a regular fiction reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph.

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Francis King on Wyndham Lewis, The Revenge for Love

Once met, I rarely dislike a person. But the idea of a person often fills me with dislike and even abhorrence. So it was with Wyndham Lewis. I never met him but I might easily have done so, since I often begged J. R. Ackerley, the brilliant literary editor of The Listener and a close friend of us both, to effect an introduction. But Ackerley, always oddly fearful that, if he brought any two of his friends together, he might lose both of them, did nothing.

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