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John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright.

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Tony Connor was born in Manchester, England. After leaving school at 14, he served in the British Army as a tank gunner, and worked as a textile designer between 1944 and 1960, and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s. He was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. He earned an MA at the University of Manchester [1] in 1967 and in 1968 visiting writer at Amherst College in Massachusetts. [2]

In 1961, he married the speech therapist, Frances Foad. They had three children: two sons, Samuel and Simon, and a daughter Rebecca. They divorced in 1979. [3]

From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

He lives in Middletown and London. He was a close friend of the English writer J. G. Ballard and remains close friends with Michael de Larrabeiti. One section of Connor's 2006 anthology Things Unsaid is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 book Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems.

Connor has published nine volumes of poetry. His work is anthologized in British Poetry since 1945 . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1974. [2]

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References

  1. "Tony Connor", Poetry Foundation.
  2. 1 2 "Tony Connor", Academy of American Poets.
  3. Hayes, Cathy (2009). "MacCurtain (née Foad), Frances". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.