"Peter Vansittart, who has died aged 88, was a master of the historical novel and a writer of outstanding talent. He wrote more than 40 books, which also encompassed anthologies, works on literature and . As he was the first to concede, the reading public could be slow to enjoy his novels. He put this down to his “obsession with language and speculation at the expense of narrative, however much I relish narrative in others”. Nonetheless, he was admired by critics and fellow authors. To , he was “a master of description”, and to , “a carefully accurate historian [and] a splendidly imaginative writer of fiction”."
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Peter Vansittart
(27 August 1920 – 4 October 2008) was a prolific English novelist. He also wrote historical studies, memoirs, and stories for children and edited several anthologies and the WWI letters of John Masefield. Vansittart was elected in 1985 a Fellow of the and in 2008 received an .
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