David Garnett
| David Garnett | |
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Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938),vintage snapshot print/NPG Ax140447. David Garnett, 1920
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| Born |
9 March 1892 Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
| Died | 17 February 1981 (aged 88) Montcuq, Lot, France |
| Spouse(s) | Rachel Marshall Angelica Bell (1942 – 1981; his death) |
| Parent(s) |
Edward Garnett (1868–1937) Constance Black (1861–1946) |
David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was a British writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny", by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life.
Garnett was born in Brighton, the only child of the writer, critic and publisher Edward Garnett and his wife Constance, a translator of Russian. Through his father, he was descended from a writer and a philologist who both worked at what is now the British Library, then within the British Museum. Bloomsbury and the life of letters were embedded in David.
As a conscientious objector in the First World War, Garnett worked on fruit farms in Suffolk and Sussex with his lover Duncan Grant.
A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into Fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel Aspects of Love (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd Webber musical was based.
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