14 Facts About John Wain

John Barrington Wain CBE was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement".

John Wain worked for most of his life as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.

John Wain was a Fereday Fellow of St John's between 1946 and 1949.

On 4 July 1947, John Wain married Marianne Uffenheimer was born on 1923 or 1924, and but they divorced in 1956.

John Wain then married Eirian Mary James, deputy director of the recorded sound department of the British Council, on 1 January 1960.

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John Wain married his third wife, Patricia Adams was born on 1942 or 1943, and an art teacher, in 1989.

John Wain wrote his first novel, Hurry on Down, in 1953: a comic picaresque story about an unsettled university graduate who rejects the standards of conventional society.

John Wain himself was the subject of a bibliography by David Gerard.

John Wain taught at the University of Reading during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in 1963 spent a term as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London.

John Wain was the first fellow in creative arts at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was appointed a supernumerary fellow in 1973.

John Wain was made an honorary fellow of his old college, St John's, Oxford, in 1985.

John Wain is still known for his poetry and literary interests, although his work is no longer as popular as it was.

John Wain encountered, but did not see himself part of the group of Lewis's literary acquaintances, the Inklings.

John Wain was as serious about literature as the Inklings, and believed as they did in the primacy of literature as communication, but as a modern realist writer he shared neither their conservative social beliefs nor their propensity for fantasy.