Keith Alldritt is a British novelist, biographer and critic. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School

Wolverhampton Grammar School

Wolverhampton Grammar School is a co-educational independent school located in the city of Wolverhampton.Initially Wolverhampton Boys Grammar School, it was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Merchant Taylors, who was also Lord Mayor of London in the year of...

 and St Catharine's College, Cambridge

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

St. Catharine’s College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473, the college is often referred to informally by the nickname "Catz".-History:...

. He lives in the West Midlands which are the setting for his novels. For some years he was a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Illinois and then at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

, Canada.
He has contributed articles on modern and contemporary art to various magazines and newspapers in Britain, Canada and the United States.

Awards

His novel The Good Pit Man was a New Fiction Society choice.
For his biography David Jones-Writer and Artist he was elected to membership of the Welsh Academi.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Books

• The Making of George Orwell: An Essay in Literary History ISBN 7132 5456 X
• The Visual Imagination of D.H. Lawrence ISBN 0 7131 5582 5
• The Good Pit Man LCCCN 765367
• The Lover Next Door - a novel ISBN 0 253 96880 6
• Elgar on the Journey to Hanley - a novel ISBN 0-233-97064-9
• Eliot's Four Quartets: Poetry as Chamber Music ISBN 0-7130-0161-5
• Modernism in the Second World War: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid (1989) ISBN 0-8204-0865-4
• Churchill the Writer: His Life as a Man of Letters (1992) ISBN 0 09 177085 4
• The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D.Roosvelt and Winston Churchill, 1941-1945 (1995) ISBN 0 7090 5266 9
• W.B.Yeats:The Man and the Milieu (1997) ISBN 0-7195-53547
• The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting (1998) ISBN 1 85410 477 2
• David Jones:Writer and Artist (2003) ISBN 1-84119-379-8