David Pryce-Jones

David Pryce-Jones was born in Vienna. He studied modern history at Magdalen College Oxford. He became literary editor Financial Times 1959-61. Right before that he became literary editor, Spectator 1961-63.

Between 1964-65, he was visiting writer in residence, teaching creative writing at the University of Iowa. He was also visiting lecturer at the California State College at Hayward between 1966 and 1968.

Then, in 1970, the University of California at Berkeley invited him to be Visiting Profesor.

In the meantime, he was also Special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, 1966-1982.

His various assignments included Six Day War of 1967, Yom Kippur war of 1973, covering the rise of the PLO; Soviet Union, especially in Central Asia; a series on the Balkans; literary profiles including Auden, Graves, Bellow, Wilfred Thesiger, Jean-Francois Revel.

Regular or occasional contributor to Daily Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic etc

Since June 1999, senior editor of National Review.

Some recent publications include essays in New Criterion September 1996 (republished in The Future of the European Past, Ivan Dee 1997) September 1998, October 1999, December 1999; essays in Commentary June 1997, November 1997, April 1998, July 1999; Partisan Review vol LXV number 1 and 1998 no 3; translation from the Arabic of Hittaan bin al-Mualla in Generations (Penguin 1998); introduction to Agatha Christie's memoir Come, Tell Me How You Live, (Common Reader 2000). Introduction to Islam unveiled, by Robert Spencer (Encounter Books 2002).

Bibliography

Fiction:

• Owls and Satyrs (Longmans 1961)
• The Sands of Summer (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1963)
• Quondam (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965)
• The Stranger's View (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967)
• Running Away (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971)
• The England Commune (Quartet 1975)
• Shirley's Guild (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979)
• The Afternoon Sun (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986)
• Inheritance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992)

Non-Fiction:

• Graham Greene (Oliver & Boyd 1963)
• Next Generation : Travels in Israel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965)
• The Hungarian Revolution (Benn 1969)
• The Face of Defeat (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972)
• Evelyn Waugh and his world (Ed.) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973)
• Unity Mitford (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976)
• Vienna (Time-Life Books 1978)
• Paris in the Third Reich (Collins 1981)
• Cyril Connolly :Journal and Memoir (Collins 1983)
• The Closed Circle (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989. Harper & Row in U.S. Paperback Ivan R.Dee, 2001)
• You Can't Be Too careful (Workman 1992)
• The War That Never Was (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995, published in U.S. as The Strange Death of the Soviet Union.)