David Nokes, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Nokes

British scholar

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1948

Date of Death: 19-Nov-2009

Profession: biographer, literary historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About David Nokes

  • David Nokes FRSL (March 11, 1948 - November 19, 2009) was a scholar of 18th-century English literature known for his biographies of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson.
  • He also penned screenplays, including a BBC adaptation of Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa (1991) and an adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996).
  • He was also a leading reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.Nokes attended King's College School, Wimbledon, London.
  • He received an MA from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972 and a Ph.D.
  • in 1974.
  • He started teaching at King's College London in 1973, was elevated to reader in 1986 and then promoted to Professor of English Literature in 1998.In 1994 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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