Alan Bennett






Alan Bennett

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born
May 09, 1934

gender
male

place of birth
Leeds, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom


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Alan Bennett is an English author and Tony Award-winning playwright. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Bennett's lugubrious yet expressive voice (which still bears a slight Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his own work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed.




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The Uncommon Reader: A Novella The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 3.81 — 2,091 ratings — published 2007
16 editions
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The History Boys: A Play The History Boys: A Play
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 4.16 — 349 ratings — published 2004
8 editions
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The Clothes They Stood Up In a... The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van (Today Show Book Club #5)
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 3.53 — 204 ratings — published 2002
2 editions
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The Clothes They Stood Up In The Clothes They Stood Up In
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 3.44 — 170 ratings — published 1997
10 editions
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Untold Stories Untold Stories
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 4.07 — 82 ratings — published 2001
7 editions
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Writing Home Writing Home
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 4.18 — 67 ratings — published 1995
10 editions
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Talking Heads Talking Heads
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1988
6 editions
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The Complete Talking Heads The Complete Talking Heads
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1998
4 editions
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The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows
by Alan Bennett, Kenneth Grahame
avg rating 4.09 — 33 ratings — published 1991
3 editions
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The Laying On of Hands: Storie... The Laying On of Hands: Stories
by Alan Bennett
avg rating 3.90 — 30 ratings — published 2001
10 editions
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"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film)
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"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. "
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"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."
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