Person

Callow, Philip

1924–2007

Times online WWW site, Sept. 26, 2007 (Philip Callow; b. Philip Kenneth Callow, Oct. 26, 1924, Birmingham; d. Sept. 22, 2007; introspective novelist and biographer who did not achieve the wider recognition that many believed was his due). Philip Kenneth Callow (26 October 1924 – 22 September 2007) was an English novelist known for his autobiographical portrayals of working-class life. During a long career as a writer, he published 16 novels, poetry, and several biographies of artists and authors, including Vincent van Gogh, D. H. Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, and Paul Cézanne