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John Wain Biography and Summary |
 | | John Wain has achieved fame as a novelist, poet, critic, biographer, and short-story writer--in short, as a modern man of letters. |
 | | John Wain's first novel, Hurry on Down (1953), along with Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954), seemed in the early 1950s to present a new type of hero--educated and impoverished, dissatisfied with conventional roles, suspicious of culture and all forms of p... |
 | | John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925- May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement. |
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