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Brian Finney

Scholar of English literature

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Brian Finney was an American biographer.

Brian Finney is a British-American scholar of English literature. He has a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy from the University of Reading and a PhD in English from Birkbeck College. He taught at the University of London until 1987, when he migrated to California. Since then, he has taught at the University of California, Riverside; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and California State University, Long Beach.

He won the James Tait Black Award for his biography of Christopher Isherwood.

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Occupation
Nationality
Education
University of Reading
Employers
University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of California, Riverside, University of London

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scholar of English literature

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Brian Finney was a biographer.

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Brian Finney was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Brian Finney

· Wikidata: Q4963743

· DBpedia: Brian Finney

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