William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor.

Life

Plomer was educated mostly in the United Kingdom, but described himself as an "Anglo-African-Asian". He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa.

He spent the period from October 1926 to March 1929 in Japan, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a same-sex relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly gay during his lifetime; at most he alluded to the subject.

He then moved to England and, through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became a literary editor for Faber and Faber, and was a reader and literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated Goldfinger to Plomer.

William Plomer (MP for Great Bedwyn)

William Plomer (fl. 1382-1390), of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Great Bedwyn in May 1382, October 1382, October 1383, November 1384, 1385 and January 1390.

References

William Plomer (disambiguation)

William Plomer was a writer.

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