The life of author-illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) offers almost as many strange twists as his well-known novels, as Yorke demonstrates in this detailed biography. A childhood spent in a British ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake, famed for a series of Gothic fantasies that earned him an international cult following, would have been 100 years old next year. To mark ...

Peter Winnington became interested in the work of Mervyn Peake around 1970 and is now the leading authority on Peake's life and work (written, drawn, and painted). In addition to editing Peake Studies ...

With a career encompassing 25 years that included five novels, a handful of plays and thousands of drawings, paintings and sketches, why isn’t Mervyn Peake a more celebrated English literary and ...

A television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" is coming, with some pretty impressive names attached. Writer/producer/director Akiva Goldsman, writer/producer Toby Whithouse, and Neil Gaiman ...

Mervyn Peake and I just don't get along. My impression of this collection of tales was that of reading a compilation of literary templates. Any of these tales could easily be the outline that an ...

Following the success of American Gods, which he adapted from his novel of the same name, Neil Gaiman is reportedly working on adapting a new TV version of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy for ...

All online events are free. Our Bridge Street Bedtime Story this week is Part One (of Three) of Mervyn Peake’s 1948 “LAetters From a Lost Uncle (from polar regions)”, written (and magnificently ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake, famed for a series of Gothic fantasies that earned him an international cult following, would have been 100 years old next year. To mark ...

Mervyn Peake tries too hard to be literary. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User ...