Biography

Cyril Connolly was born on September 10, 1903 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Dig This Rhubarb (1963), The Silence of the Sea (1946) and An Evening with... (1968). He was married to Deirdre Craven, Barbara Skelton and Jean Bakewell. He died on November 26, 1974 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK.

Literary critic for the Times and writer. Graduated from Oxford. His daughter is the journalist and author Cressida Connolly.

The experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental and in the last analysis homosexual.

[History Teacher] He was a Tory in politics where again he seemed to stand for tolerance, efficiency and a hatred of fuss. "You must learn that there is no justice in this world" he was fond of saying... "You must always remember that nobody is indispensable" was another of his maxims.

A good talker can talk away the substance of 20 books in as many evenings. He will describe the central idea of the book he intends to write until it revolts him.

Tory satire, directed at people on a moving staircase from a stationary one, is doomed to ultimate peevishness.