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Cyril Connolly

(1903-1974), Writer and journalist

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A regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s, Connolly went on to co-edit the influential literary magazine Horizon from 1939 to 1950, after which he was the chief book reviewer for the Sunday Times. Connolly's ambition was to become a great novelist, or at least create a literary masterpiece. He wrote only one novel, The Rock Pool (1935) a satirical work. His best-known work is the autobiography that forms the second half of Enemies of Promise (1938), in which he attempted to explain his failure to produce the literary masterpiece that he and others believed he should have been capable of writing.

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Cyril Connolly, by Henri Cartier-Bresson - NPG P722

Cyril Connolly

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1939
NPG P722

Cyril Connolly, by Cecil Beaton - NPG P869(7)

Cyril Connolly

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1942
NPG P869(7)

Cyril Connolly, by Howard Coster - NPG x1636

Cyril Connolly

by Howard Coster
half-plate nitrate negative, 1942
NPG x1636

Cyril Connolly, by Howard Coster - NPG x15334

Cyril Connolly

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x15334

Cyril Connolly, by Janet Stone - NPG x23331

Cyril Connolly

by Janet Stone
bromide print, 1972
NPG x23331

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