Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.

"A master of irony... a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green." (Leo Lerman, New York Times) "A must for Powell devotees." (Edmund Fuller, New York Times Book Review, on What's Become of Waring?)"

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.

"A master of irony... a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green." (Leo Lerman, New York Times) "A must for Powell devotees." (Edmund Fuller, New York Times Book Review, on What's Become of Waring?)"

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.

"A master of irony... a writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green." (Leo Lerman, New York Times) "A must for Powell devotees." (Edmund Fuller, New York Times Book Review, on What's Become of Waring?)"