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- NAME: Cyril Connolly
- OCCUPATION: Scholar, Literary Critic, Academic Author, Editor, Publisher, Journalist, Author
- BIRTH DATE: September 10, 1903
- DEATH DATE: November 26, 1974
- EDUCATION: Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Coventry, United Kingdom
- PLACE OF DEATH: London, United Kingdom
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Cyril Connolly was an English literary critic, essayist, and novelist.
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Cyril Connolly was born on Sept. 10, 1903, in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He was an English critic, novelist, and man of letters, and founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of contemporary literature. As a critic he was personal and eclectic rather than systematic, but his idiosyncratic views were perceptive and conveyed with wit and grace. He died in 1974.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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