English novelist and critic. His fiction includes comic and satiric portrayals of provincial British and US campus life:
Eating People is Wrong (1959) (his first novel),
Stepping Westward (1965), and
The History Man (1975).
Dr Criminale (1992) is an academic satire with a 1990s setting. His critical works include
The Modern American Novel (1983) and
The Modern British Novel (1993). He was knighted in 1999.
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