Patrick Parrinder

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Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, formerly professor of English at the University of Reading who retired in 2008.[https://www.reading.ac.uk/english-literature/aboutus/Staff/p-parrinder.aspx Professor Patrick Parrinder], University of Reading. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

Parrinder was educated at Leighton Park School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught English by Graham Hough."Cambridge Tripos Examination Results", The Times, 24 June 1965, p. 18.[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/george-steiner-2/ "Letters to the Editor: George Steiner"], The Times Literary Supplement, 3 April 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2024. He has written books of literary criticism on James Joyce and H. G. Wells, and was associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, focusing on literary authors in the period 1890–1920.

He was Vice-President and President of the H.G. Wells Society in London.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF3H9TLMmWwhttps://www.celebratewoking.info/events/the-prophet-of-science-by-partick-parrinderhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/world/europe/hg-wells-coin-royal-mint.htmlhttps://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Patrick-Parrinder/173889037

He also edited texts of H. G. Wells published by Penguin Classics.{{cite book | last1 = Ryle | first1 = Martin H. | last2 = Bourne Taylor | first2 = Jenny | title = George Gissing | page = vii | publisher = Ashgate Publishing, Ltd | year = 2005 | ISBN = 0-7546-3675-5}}