Winnington G.Peter:
Mervyn Peake's Vast Alchemies
The Illustrated, Authorised Biography
Peter Owen Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback
ISBN: 9780720613414
ISBN-10: 0720613418
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Mervyn Peake's Vast Alchemies
The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake. The result of twenty-five years of research, this biography follows Peake, the son of missionary parents, from China to art school in London and his time in an artists' colony in the Channel Islands. It covers in detail his experiences in the army durng which he wrote 'Titus Groan' - and the huge influence that his visit to the newly liberated concentration camp at Belsen had on his work. The next ten years of his life were without a doubt his most productive but by the mid-1950s he was beginning to show signs of the degenerative illness that eventually killed him in 1968.
