John Boynton Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.
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23 Facts About JB Priestley
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JB Priestley died when Priestley was just two years old and his father remarried four years later.
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JB Priestley was to draw on memories of Bradford in many of the works he wrote after he had moved south, including Bright Day and When We Are Married.
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JB Priestley served in the British army during the First World War, volunteering for the Duke of Wellington's Regiment on 7 September 1914 and being posted to the 10th Battalion in France as a Lance-Corporal on 26 August 1915.
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JB Priestley was badly wounded in June 1916 when he was buried alive by a trench mortar.
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JB Priestley spent many months in military hospitals and convalescent establishments and on 26 January 1918 was commissioned as an officer in the Devonshire Regiment and posted back to France in the late summer.
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However some critics were less than complimentary about his work and JB Priestley threatened legal action against Graham Greene for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul Train.
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JB Priestley moved into a new genre and became equally well known as a dramatist.
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JB Priestley chaired the 1941 Committee and in 1942 he was a cofounder of the socialist Common Wealth Party.
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JB Priestley himself was distrustful of the state and dogma, though he did stand for the Cambridge University constituency in 1945.
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JB Priestley's name was on Orwell's list, a list of people that George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
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JB Priestley was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958.
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JB Priestley had a deep love for classical music, especially chamber music.
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JB Priestley snubbed the chance to become a life peer in 1965 and declined appointment as a Companion of Honour in 1969.
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JB Priestley had a number of affairs, including a serious relationship with the actress Peggy Ashcroft.
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In 1921 JB Priestley married Emily "Pat" Tempest, a music-loving Bradford librarian.
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In September 1926 Priestley married Jane Wyndham-Lewis ; they had two daughters and one son, the film editor Tom Priestley.
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In 1953 JB Priestley was divorced by his second wife and then married the archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes, with whom he collaborated on the play Dragon's Mouth.
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JB Priestley died of pneumonia on 14 August 1984, a month short of his ninetieth birthday.
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JB Priestley's ashes were buried in Hubberholme churchyard at the head of Wharfedale in Yorkshire.
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