David Profumo
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David John Profumo, FRSL (born 20 October 1955), is an English novelist.
Profumo was born in London, the son of former British government minister John Profumo, and his wife, actress Valerie Hobson.
Biography
Profumo was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was Assistant Master of English at Eton in 1978 and at Shrewsbury School from 1978 to 1979. He then became part-time lecturer of English at King's College London, from 1981 to 1983 and Deputy Editor of Fiction Magazine from 1982 to 1984.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1987 to 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/p/20170/David%20John%20PROFUMO.aspx |title=David Profumo, Esq |publisher=Debretts |access-date=10 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731142134/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/p/20170/David%20John%20PROFUMO.aspx |archive-date=31 July 2012 }}
Profumo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows |title=Royal Society of Literature All Fellows |publisher=Royal Society of Literature |access-date=10 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows |archive-date=5 March 2010 }}
Profumo married BBC Television producerProfumo, David. Bringing the house down. John Murray, 2007. Helen Fraser, daughter of Alasdair Fraser, former Consultant Gynaecologist at St Mary's Hospital, on 22 March 1979 at St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, London.{{cite web|url = http://thepeerage.com/p21861.htm#i218602|title = The Peerage.com|access-date = 10 August 2010}} They have a son Alexander James Profumo.
Profumo's 2006 family memoir, Bringing the House Down, covered the scandal brought about by his father's affair with Christine Keeler.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/sep/24/politicalbooks.politicsphilosophyandsociety|title=There were four of them in this marriage|work=The Guardian|access-date=2011-01-15|location=London|first=Tim|last=Adams|date=24 September 2006}}{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1527833/Son-breaks-familys-40-year-silence-on-scandal-of-the-Profumo-Affair.html| title=Son breaks family's 40-year silence on scandal of the Profumo Affair| work=The Daily Telegraph| date= September 2, 2006| location=London| first=Elizabeth| last=Grice}}
Bibliography
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=Books=
==Novels==
- Sea Music London, Secker and Warburg, 1988.
- The Weather in Iceland London, Picador, 1993.
==Non-fiction==
- In Praise of Trout. London, Viking, 1989.
- The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing Literature . Editor, with Graham Swift, London, Picador, 1985
- Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir, 2006
= Short fiction =
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!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected !|Notes |
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| The blind man eats many flies
|? |? |{{cite book |author=Profumo, David |editor=Julian Evans|title=Foreign exchange |location=London |publisher=Sphere |date=1985 |chapter=The blind man eats many flies}} | |
=Essays and reporting=
- {{cite journal |author=Profumo, David |date=Sep 10, 2014 |title=The little drummer bird |journal=Country Life |volume=208 |issue=37 |pages=126–127}}
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:20th-century English novelists
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Category:English people of Italian descent
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Category:English male novelists