10 Facts About Rex Warner

Rex Warner was an English classicist, writer, and translator.

Rex Warner was born Reginald Ernest Warner in Birmingham, England, and brought up mainly in Gloucestershire, where his father was a clergyman.

Rex Warner was educated at St George's School in Harpenden, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he associated with W H Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Stephen Spender, and published in Oxford Poetry.

Rex Warner obtained a 1st in Classical Moderations in 1925 and later graduated with a 3rd in English in 1928.

Rex Warner was a great admirer of Franz Kafka and his fiction was "profoundly influenced" by Kafka's work.

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Rex Warner then abandoned contemporary allegory in favour of historical novels about Ancient Greece and Rome, including Imperial Caesar, for which he was awarded the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Rex Warner dedicated it to the Greek poet and diplomat George Seferis.

In 1961 Rex Warner was appointed Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College and from 1962 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Connecticut.

Rex Warner retired to England in 1973 and died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Rex Warner had further children including a daughter Anne, who wrote about the relationship between Warner and her mother in the book 'The Blind Horse of Corfu'.