[3] "We can at least believe that man lives under God in a great mystery." Literature and Western Man (1960). However, he was skeptical of the usefulness of man's institutions of organized religion. Quoting from the same nonfiction work, he concludes that "Any last pretense of society having a religious foundation and framework, being contained at all by religion, has vanished."
Father: (schoolmaster)
Wife: Pat Tempest (m. 1921, two daughers, d. 1925 cancer)
Wife: Jane Wyndham Lewis (m. 1926, one daughter, div. 1952)
Wife: Jacquetta Hawkes (writer, m. 1953)
High School: Belle Vue Grammar School (dropped out at age 16)
University: Trinity College, Cambridge University (1922)
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Angel Pavement (1930, novel)
The Plays of J. B. Priestley (1948, drama, 3 vols.)
Wrote plays:
Dangerous Corner (1932)
Time and the Conways (1937)
An Inspector Calls (1946)
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