Edward Upward

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Edward Upward" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Edward Upward
Upward c. 1938
Born	(1903-09-09)9 September 1903 Romford, Essex, England
Died	13 February 2009(2009-02-13) (aged 105) Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Writer, schoolteacher
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Period	1920–2003
Spouse	Hilda Percival ​ ​ (m. 1936; died 1995)​

Edward Falaise Upward, FRSL (9 September 1903 – 13 February 2009) was a British novelist and short story writer who, prior to his death, was believed to be the UK's oldest living author. Initially gaining recognition amongst the Auden Group as a highly imaginative surrealist writer, in the 1930s he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, after which his writing shifted towards Marxist realism. His literary career spanned over eighty years.