| Osbert
Sitwell |
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 06 Dec 1892
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Date of death - 1969 |
| Place of birth
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(Sir) Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell was born in London on December 6, 1892.
He was the son of Sir George and Lady Ida Sitwell, and the brother of Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell.
He attended private schools in Scarborough and New Barnet, and Eton College. After Eton, Osbert spent two years at a military "crammer" in Camberley and in 1912 was commissioned in the Nottingham Yeomanry. He served with the Grenadier Guards during World War I and left the army in 1919.
In 1943 Osbert succeeded his father as fifth baronet. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary associate of the American National Institute of Arts and Letters, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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He received a Commander Order of the British Empire in 1956 and was named Companion of Honour in 1958.
Osbert Sitwell's writing career spanned a period of over fifty years, but it was in the first quarter of the twentieth century that he earned the reputation which would endure his lifetime. Osbert, along with his sister Edith and, to a lesser extent, his brother Sacheverell, publicly challenged what they perceived to be, a sedentary and prosaic British society. Emerging from an aristocratic background, the trio was often referred to as "enfants terribles," in their haste to usher in all that was new in art, literature, music, and fashion, and scourge all that was not.
During their heyday, Osbert vociferously campaigned against the Georgian poets, pompous conventionality, and anything that smacked of philistinism. In turn, he ardently promoted Modernism and supported such writers as Eliot, Pound, and Huxley. As a controversial journalist, poet, art critic, novelist, and autobiographer, Osbert voiced his opinions in an acerbic, witty, and highly original writing style. Over the years he published numerous successful works, but his most sustained achievement was his five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand, which was published during the years 1944-1950.
In the last years of his life Osbert was increasingly incapacitated with Parkinson's disease.
Osbert Sitwell died in 1969. |
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