Theodore Francis Powys | |
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| Born | 20 December 1875 Shirley, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | 27 November 1953 (aged 77) Mappowder, Dorset, England |
| Resting place | Mappowder, Dorset |
| Occupation | Novelist and short story writer |
| Genre | Allegory |
| Literary movement | Modernism, English literature |
| Notable works | Mr. Weston's Good Wine, Unclay |
| Spouse | Violet Dodd |
Theodore Francis Powys (20 December 1875 – 27 November 1953) – published as T. F. Powys – was a British novelist and short-story writer.[1] He is best remembered for his allegorical novel Mr. Weston's Good Wine (1927), where Weston the wine merchant is evidently God. Powys was influenced by the Bible, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift and other writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as later writers such as Thomas Hardy and Friedrich Nietzsche.
- ^ "Powys, Theodore Francis" in Christine L. Krueger, Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries Infobase Publishing, 2009 ISBN 1-4381-0870-2 (p. 303)