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Derek Patmore

1908 – 1972

English writer

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Lived 1908 – 1972 (aged 63–64). Derek Patmore was a British writer.

Derek Coventry Patmore (1908, London1972) was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.

Patmore was educated at Uppingham School. He worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans and the Middle East, writing for the News Chronicle and the Daily Mail.

In 1940, having met Patmore in Bucharest, the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian wrote in his diary that Camil Petrescu told him Patmore was a pederast.

Works Selected Poems of Coventry Patmore, London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Portrait of My Family, London: Cassell, 1935. I Decorate My Home, London: Putnam, 1936. Decoration for the Small Home, London: Putnam, 1938. Invitation to Roumania, London: Macmillan, 1939. French for Love, London, 1940. Balkan Correspondent, New York: Harper, 1941. Images of Greece, London: Country Life, 1944. Colour Schemes and Modern Furnishing, London: The Studio, 1945. Life and Times of Coventry Patmore, Oxford University Press, 1949. Italian Pageant, London: Evans Bros, 1949. A Traveller in Venice, London: Methuen, 1951. A Decorator's Notebook, London: Falcon Press, 1952. Dark Places of the Heart: A Novel, London: Falcon Press, 1953. Private History: An Autobiography, 1960. Canada, London: Studio Vista, 1967. D. H. Lawrence and the Dominant Male, London: Covent Garden Press, 1970. Homage to Marcel Proust, London: Covent Garden Press, 1971.

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Born
1908
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Died
1972
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Derek Coventry Patmore

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Who was Derek Patmore?

English writer (1908–1972)

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Derek Patmore was born in 1908.

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Derek Patmore died in 1972.

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Derek Patmore was a writer.

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Derek Patmore was British.

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· Wikidata: Q5262256

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