Anthony Carson (1907-1973) was a British journalist and humorous travel writer.

Biography

Anthony Carson was the literary pseudonym of Peter Brooke,[1] born Peter von Bohr.[2]

In the 1940s, he drank at The Wheatsheaf pub in Fitzrovia,[3] London with Dylan Thomas, Julian Maclaren-Ross, George Barker, Peter Vansittart, Mulk Raj Anand, Fred Urquhart, Paul Potts and Tambimuttu.[2]

His portrait by Daniel Farson was included in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson, in 2012.[4] He is mentioned in the memoirs of Julian Maclaren Ross and Rupert Croft-Cooke,[2] and is one of the subjects of Paul Johnson's book of biographies, Brief Lives (2011).

Colin MacInnes described him in The Observer as "one of the few great English humorous writers of the century".[2]

Songs

Novels & travel writing

References

  1. ^ Carty, T. J. (1995). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language (1st ed.). London: Mansell; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 9781884964138.
  2. ^ a b c d Mackay, Ralph. "Peter Brooke By Any Other Name". Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  3. ^ Howse, Christopher (2013). The Train in Spain. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1441198059.
  4. ^ "Press Release: Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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