“The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.” – Humphrey Carpenter
Carpenter, who was born in 1946, is noted for his writing but was also very well-known in England for his long career on BBC Radio
before his death in 2005.
An accomplished player of the piano, the saxophone, and the double-bass,
he did the last instrument professionally in a dance band in the 1970s. And, in 1983, he formed the 1930s style jazz
band, Vile Bodies, which for many years enjoyed a residency at the Ritz Hotel
in London.
Carpenter also founded the Mushy Pea
Theatre Group, a children's drama group based in Oxford, which premiered his Mr
Majeika: The Musical in 1991 and Babes, a musical about Hollywood
child stars.
Carpenter’s notable writing output
was primarily biographies, including The Inklings: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien,
Charles Williams and their Friends (winner of the 1978 Somerset Maugham
Award); J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography; Ezra Pound (winner of the Duff
Cooper Memorial Prize); and Benjamin Britten. He won numerous friends for himself and his writing with a humorous autobiography. 
“Autobiography,” he told an interviewer, “is probably the most respectable form of lying.”
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