Mervyn Peake (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Mervyn Laurence Peake, painter, poet, and novelist, is one of the most interesting English artists—visual and literary—of the twentieth century. He was born in Kuling, China, in 1911. His father, Ernest Cromwell Peake, was a Congregational missionary doctor, and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, of Welsh background, had come to China as a missionary nurse. The Peakes returned to England just before the outbreak of World War I in 1914 but went again in 1916 to China, where they remained until 1923. Mervyn Peake never returned to China, but critics have suggested that his most...
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