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He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous..
Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism.
He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation.
Auden (1907--1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor.
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His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).
Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener.
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About the Author: J.
This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.
But Ackerley\'s pursuit of his Father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man.
And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own--this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life.
Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life.
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