David Pryce-Jones
David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (1936-) is a conservative British author and commenter. He was born in Vienna and his family fled to Britain from France in 1940.
He was educated at Eton and read History at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied under A.J.P. Taylor. His relationship with Taylor was very antagonistic, with the two frequently getting into shouting matches.
He served as officer in the British Army of the Rhine. He has worked as a journalist and author. He was Literary Editor at the Financial Times 1959-61, and The Spectator from 1961-63.
Pryce-Jones currently works as senior editor at National Review magazine. He also contributes to The New Criterion. Pryce-Jones often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters.
He married Clarissa Caccia in 1959. They have three children and he lives in London.
Work
Novels
- Owls & Satyrs, Longmans, 1961.
- The Sands of Summer, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
- Quondam London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965.
- The Stranger’s View London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
- Running Away (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971)
- The England Commune, Quartet, 1975.
- Shirley’s Guild London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979.
- The Afternoon Sun London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986.
- Inheritance London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992.
Non-fiction
- Graham Greene, Oliver & Boyd, 1963.
- Next Generation: Travels in Israel London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965.
- The Hungarian Revolution, Benn, 1969.
- The Face of Defeat London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
- Evelyn Waugh & his world (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
- Unity Mitford London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.
- Vienna, Time-Life Books, 1978.
- Paris in the Third Reich, Collins, 1981.
- Cyril Connolly: Journal & Memoir Collins, 1983.
- The Closed Circle, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
- You Can’t be Too Careful (Workman, 1992)
- The War that Never Was London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
- Muslim Immigration and the West, in Muhammad's Monsters, editor David Bukay.
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Categories
1936 births | Living people | British writers | Former students of Magdalen College, Oxford