The Sohemian Society presents
Alexander Baron - novelist of London’s street life and politics
A talk by Ken Worpole
The Guardian described Alexander Baron (1917 - 1999) as “the greatest British novelist of the last war and among the finest of the postwar period.” Jewish-born in Hackney, Baron was amongst those idealists who tried to fight in Spain, who got caught up in political and literary life in London, fought in several major wartime battles, and who, after the war became the author of a series of gripping novels about war and London life in the East End, and in Soho. Three of the most famous are From the City, from the Plough (1948), The Lowlife (1963) and King Dido (1969).
This talk will be given by writer Ken Worpole, who knew Baron and who has written a biographical introduction to a new edition of King Dido published by Five Leaves Press.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 7.30 Upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, Rathbone Place, North Soho, W1, off Oxford and Charlotte Streets (nearest tube station: Tottenham Court Rd). Admission: £3
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First posted: Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
