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	washingtonpost.com: Humphrey Carpenter; British Biographer
		Humphrey Carpenter, 58, a prolific biographer of leading British and American cultural figures who also wrote a popular series of children's books, died Jan. 4 of a pulmonary embolism in Oxford, England.
		Carpenter's 1996 biography of Robert Runcie, the former archbishop of Canterbury, portrayed the archbishop's derogatory views of Princess Diana and gay priests and was denounced by Runcie.
		Carpenter, who spent most of his life in Oxford, was a polymath who wrote and spoke frequently in broadcasts on British radio and television on a wide range of topics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A59831-2005Jan8?language=printer (253 words)

	Tolkien Bibliography: 1977 - Humphrey Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: a biography
		Humphrey Carpenter was given unrestricted access to all Tolkien's papers, and interviewed his friends and family.
		Humphrey Carpenter, who was given unrestricted access to Tolkien's papers, brilliantly puts meat to the bones of the Tolkien legend in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, offering a well-rounded portrayal of this quiet, bookish man who always saw himself first and foremost as a philologist, uncovering rather than creating the peoples, languages, and adventures of Middle-Earth.
		Carpenter chronicles Tolkien's early life with a special sensitivity; after losing both parents, Tolkien and his brother Hilary were taken from their idyllic life in the English countryside to a poverty-ridden existence in dark and sooty Birmingham.
	www.tolkienlibrary.com /booksabouttolkien/biography/description.htm (3437 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (April 29, 1946 – January 4, 2005) was an English biographer, author and radio broadcaster.
		He was born, died, and lived practically all of his life in the city of Oxford, although he was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
		Carpenter, the son of a former bishop of Oxford, was a pupil at The Dragon School in Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humphrey_Carpenter (453 words)

	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter J.R.R. Tolkien - The Dark Spiral
		Humphrey Carpenter, who was given unrestricted access to Tolkien's papers, brilliantly puts meat to the bones of the Tolkien legend in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, offering a well-rounded portrayal of this quiet, bookish man who always saw himself first and foremost as a philologist, uncovering rather than creating the peoples, languages, and adventures of Middle-Earth.
		Carpenter chronicles Tolkien's early life with a special sensitivity; after losing both parents, Tolkien and his brother Hilary were taken from their idyllic life in the English countryside to a poverty-ridden existence in dark and sooty Birmingham.
		Carpenter's biography is very strong on the harsh circumstances of young Tolkien's upbringing, particularly the death of his young parents before World War I. The orphaned Tolkien found solace in the Catholic Church, of which he would be a faithful member for the rest of his life.
	www.darkspiral.com /item/0618057021 (1206 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter
		As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice.
		His father, the Rev Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College, and Humphrey recalled as a small boy roaming the gothic vastness of the lodgings and college on his tricycle, terrorising the undergraduates and bursar in what he described as "a wonderful Gormenghast existence".
		By this time, Humphrey was a pupil at the city's Dragon school, and he went on to Marlborough school before going back to study English at Keble.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1383352,00.html (1060 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter; biographer, 58 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Humphrey Carpenter, the English writer, editor, radio broadcaster and musician who wrote intimate biographies of Auden, Pound, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dennis Potter and Spike Milligan, among others, died Jan. 4 in Oxford, England.
		Carpenter was prolific, his work ranging from conducting radio interviews and producing children's theater to writing trenchant book reviews and playing musical instruments.
		Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was born April 29, 1946, the only child of the Right Rev. Harry Carpenter, who went on to become warden of Keble College, Oxford, and bishop of Oxford, and Urith Monica Trevelyan.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050128/news_1m28carpente.html (444 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Great Lives
		Humphrey Carpenter joined the BBC from university as a general trainee in 1968, and worked for several years as a local radio producer and presenter in his home city of Oxford before leaving the BBC staff to write the authorised biography of J R R Tolkien.
		Humphrey said he was 'gradually lured back' into radio to present various arts programmes; he introduced the very first edition of Radio 3's Night Waves in 1992.
		Humphrey died on 4 January 2005 after a long illness.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/greatlives/team.shtml (310 words)

	On 4 January 2005 Humphrey Carpenter, 58, died after a long illness. He was known as a writer and broadcaster, and ...
		Humphrey Carpenter joined the BBC from university as a general trainee in 1968, and worked for several years as a local radio producer and presenter in his home city of Oxford.
		Humphrey said he was 'gradually lured back' into radio to present various arts programmes; he introduced the very first edition of Radio 3's Night Waves in 1992.
		Tolkien could have no better biographer than Humphrey Carpenter, a fellow Oxfordian and friend, an indefatigable researcher with a lively pen and an ebullient sense of humor, and himself a youthful reader of The Hobbit and the later Tolkien works.
	www.tolkienlibrary.com /reviews/humphreycarpenter.htm (862 words)

	Dennis Potter - Humphrey Carpenter
		Carpenter may seem to harp on this a bit much, but it is hard to get around it, and overall he does a good enough job of it.
		Carpenter seems a bit less certain about Potter's debilitating ailment, the psoriatic arthropathy that crippled his hands and left him constantly shedding his skin.
		Humphrey Carpenter is the author of numerous biographies.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/potterd/bio1hc.htm (1785 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		Humphrey Carpenter was the master of the group biography.
		Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford in 1946 and lived there all his life, in Farndon Road.
		Humphrey Carpenter, on the other hand, was an extremely nice man, the kind of life-enhancing enthusiast at whom you extend your hands, as to a radiator.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article17973.ece (1370 words)

	Guardian \| Obituary letter: Humphrey Carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Kelly's excellent obituary of Humphrey Carpenter (January 5) did not mention his three years as director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, from 1994 to 1996; I had been its organiser since 1991, and was co-director with him in his last year.
		He rose ebulliently to mini-disasters, such as the time when a panel member was fog-bound in Ireland and Humphrey interviewed him by mobile phone, holding it to the microphone for the benefit of the audience.
		However, Humphrey was just as interested in the lesser-known writers and performers: new novelists, historians, psychologists, a mini-festival devoted to Eastern European writers, shows with songs and music (so important to him), performance poets - whom he assembled to celebrate not just the written or spoken word, but life itself.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5112848-103684,00.html (231 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter-Comment-Obituaries-TimesOnline
		HUMPHREY CARPENTER’S early death deprives the world of a prolific biographer, BBC radio of a uniquely knowledgeable and lively broadcaster, and the city of Oxford of a loyal son.
		Humphrey, an only child, was brought up among books and was expected, he said, to think for himself as soon as he could walk; his mother, Urith Monica Trevelyan, was a Froebel-trained teacher.
		Carpenter was accused of betrayal, and suffered violent and pompous attacks, notably from the critic A. Wilson, who decried him not only for treachery but also for his scruffily carefree personal appearance.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article408779.ece (1410 words)

	Amazon.com: Benjamin Britten: A Biography: Books: Humphrey Carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Carpenter is fair in this treatment of Britten, showing both the attractive and unfortunate aspects of his personality, such as his tendency to callously discard co-workers when he felt he could work more productively with others.
		Carpenter gives no real sense of the position that Britten occupies in the history of 20th century music, probably because he doesn't have the musicological knowledge necessary to establish this kind of context.
		Carpenter's own narrative shows the somewhat amateurish quality of pre-war British musical life and its remarkable evolution in the post-war period, a process in which Britten was a important creative figure.
	www.amazon.com /Benjamin-Britten-Biography-Humphrey-Carpenter/dp/0684195690 (1864 words)

	Obituary of Humphrey Carpenter - The Tolkien Society
		We regret to announce the death of Humphrey Carpenter, who made an early and unique contribution to Tolkien scholarship when, with the approval of the Tolkien family, he was commissioned to write the authorised biography for Allen and Unwin.
		Humphrey was a charming and enthusiastic man who nevertheless took enormous pains over his research; he was an accomplished jazz musician on several instruments; and his premature death at 58 brought up in Oxford, where his father, Rev. Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College and then Bishop of Oxford.
		Carpenter built a free-lance career as a biographer, book-reviewer, radio broadcaster and even children's book writer (the Mr.
	www.tolkiensociety.org /news/Humphrey-Carpenter.html (274 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter - Tolkienites - Lothlorien - The Informations Area of Tolkienet.com - The Online Tolkien Community... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born in 1946, Humphrey Carpenter joined the BBC from university as a general trainee in 1968, and worked for several years as a local radio producer and presenter in his home city of Oxford before leaving the BBC staff to write the authorised biography of J.R.R. Tolkien.
		This proved to be the beginning of a busy career as an author - among the other lives he has written is that of Benjamin Britten - and he also writes the highly successful series of Mr Majeika children's books.
		Humphrey says he was 'gradually lured back' into radio to present various arts programmes; he introduced the very first edition of Radio 3's Night Waves in 1992.
	www.tolkienet.com /lothlorien/tolkienites/humphreycarpenter.asp (258 words)

	Humphrey (William Bouverie) Carpenter Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Throughout his distinguished literary career, Humphrey Carpenter has produced work in a wide variety of genres-literary criticism, children's literature, magazine and newspaper journalism, and, primarily, literary biography.
		There's nothing else quite like it." And what distinguishes the work of Carpenter from that of other literary biographers is a prominent use of techniques that are generally associated with fiction and that might be shunned by the "pure" biographer.
		Humphrey (William Bouverie) Carpenter from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/humphrey-william-bouverie-carpenter-dlb (202 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Spike Milligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Humphrey Carpenter's Spike Milligan: The Biography is a brilliantly incisive journey into the life and mind of this mentally tormented comedy genius, and no subsequent book is likely to offer such a striking picture of a unique entertainment life.
		His prickliness was legendary, and his career dissatisfaction, combined with the mental problems he suffered for most of his adult life, made it impossible for him to accept his considerable status in his field.
		Humphrey Carpenter is a very good biographer indeed and I have enjoyed his biographies of Benjamin Britten, Denis Potter and others.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340826118 (933 words)

	Alibris: Humphrey Carpenter
		by Carpenter, Humphrey (Preface by), and Prichard, Mari (Preface by)
		Carpenter expertly creates a group portrait of the British literary generation that came of age between the two world wars.
		Carpenter's account brings to life those warm and enchanting evenings where their imaginations ran wild.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Humphrey_Carpenter (718 words)

	Secret Gardens Review - Humphrey Carpenter
		Carpenter interprets the classic works for children from Lewis Carroll’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND to A.A. Milne’s WINNIE THE POOH by interweaving social history, biographical criticism, and textual analysis.
		Carpenter identifies two groups among the classic writers: the destroyers (Carroll, George MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott, and Charles Kingsley), who ridicule adult values, especially faith in institutional religion; and the Arcadians (Potter, Grahame, A. Milne, and James M. Barrie), who invent coherent, attractive alternate worlds.
		Carpenter fails to discuss works such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s THE SECRET GARDEN (how ironic!) which seem to fit its thesis.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/secret-gardens (282 words)

	Amazon.com: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography: Books: Humphrey Carpenter,J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Still, Carpenter manages the subject very well, chronicling Tolkien's life from his early years throughout his life, with a special amount of attention given to the period in which he was creating his `hobbit' stories.
		Humphrey Carpenter is one of the many people who has always revered and been inspired by Tolkien.
		Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter is a great read for anyone who is considering a career in writing, as well as anyone who loves Mr.
	www.amazon.com /J-R-R-Tolkien-Biography-Humphrey-Carpenter/dp/0618057021 (1846 words)

	The Inklings (Unabridged) -- Humphrey Carpenter
		Carpenter's account brings to life those warm and enchanting evenings in Lewis' room at Magdalen College where their imaginations ran wild.
		Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford and knew Tolkien, Hugo Dryson, and several other Inklings.
		In this audiobook, he brings to light much that was not previously known about the lives of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, while at the center of the book he presents a remarkable reconstruction of their meetings and momentous friendships.
	www.audible.com /adbl/store/CJProduct.jsp?productID=BK_BLAK_000501 (189 words)

	Humphrey Carpenter, Tolkien: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Humphrey Carpenter, Tolkien: A Biography (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
		Carpenter shows Tolkien to be very much the Oxford professor.
		Carpenter's writing style is very readable, and he tells an extremely enjoyable story.
	www.greenmanreview.com /tolkien.html (744 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		My favorite thing about Humphrey Carpenter's biography of J.R.R. Tolkien is the way we gain insight into the inspirations for Tolkien's writings.
		Carpenter makes illuminating connections, linking Tolkien's early fascination with languages to the fact that the author first studied languages with his mother (who died while he was quite young).
		Carpenter also mentions that Leaf By Niggle, one of Tolkien's short stories, expressed his own bittersweet feelings about having spent most of his life writing the Silmarillion and Lord Of The Rings; especially given that advancing age made it increasingly unlikely that they would be finished in his lifetime.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0618057021 (972 words)

	Contemporary Review: Humphrey Carpenter's angry young men. . - Reviews - book review
		Audiences, though, are mercurial beings and Humphrey Carpenter's biography records the greatly fluctuating thermometer of public approval: not all the ugly ducklings are metamorphosed into swans, and of those that are, many enjoy an ephemeral beauty only.
		We can appreciate the greatness of each work of literature through Humphrey Carpenter's lovingly constructed literary editions, which serve to illuminate, not obfuscate the text for the lay reader.
		He paints the strait-jacketed literary scene, the 'Establishment', and the drabness of post-war Britain in grey hues - it is this, a sort of ubiquitous London smog, clammy and stifling, against which each author struggles.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1647_282/ai_100605234 (484 words)

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