David Boyd Haycock

David Boyd Haycock (born 1968 in Banbury, Oxfordshire)[1] is a British writer of non-fiction. He is the author of Paul Nash (2002),[2] William Stukeley (2002),[3] Mortal Coil (2008)[4] and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009), a group biography of the artists Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and C.R.W. Nevinson, all of whom were students together at the Slade School of Art in London.[5] He lives in Oxford.[6]

A Crisis of Brilliance was nominated in the "Best Non-Fiction Book" category at the 2010 Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards.[6] An exhibition based on the book opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery in June 2013. His most recent book is I Am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism (2012).

References

  1. "About me". David Boyd Haycock. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. Haycock, David Boyd (2002). Paul Nash. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-436-2. OCLC 50176269.
  3. Haycock, David Boyd (2002). William Stukeley: science, religion, and archaeology in eighteenth-century England. Tate Publishing. ISBN 0-85115-864-1. OCLC 48474165.
  4. Purves, Libby (6 June 2008). "Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock and Not Dead Yet by Julia Neuberger". Times Online. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  5. Uglow, Jenny (21 November 2009). "A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  6. 1 2 Hartford, Maggie (23 October 2010). "Double delight for author David". Oxford Times. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

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