Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell was born in 1905 into a military family with connections to the English gentry and artistic circles. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked in publishing and as a screenwriter before serving in the British Army during World War II, experiences that provided rich material for his fiction. He began A Dance to the Music of Time in 1951 with A Question of Upbringing and completed the sequence in 1975 with Hearing Secret Harmonies, dedicating a quarter century to his magnum opus. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A Dance to the Music of Time.