Simon Arthur Noël Raven, (December 28, 1927 – May 12, 2001), was a novelist, journalist and dramatist. He was born in Virginia Water, Surrey, England and died in London. December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Virginia Water is a village in Surrey in the United Kingdom. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... St. ...

Novels

His major work was a series of ten novels under the umbrella title Alms for Oblivion. The novels cover the period 1945 to 1973 and centre on a group of upper and upper middle class characters. They can be considered a novel sequence, if a somewhat loosely structured one. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... In literature, there are some recognisable types of novel sequence. ...

The early novels are robust satires of the English upper set of the mid 1950s, but the later tend to a more detached and philosophical tone. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...

The titles in Alms for Oblivion are:

• The Rich Pay Late (1964)
• Friends in Low Places (1965)
• The Sabre Squadron (1966)
• Fielding Gray (1967, but the first by internal chronology)
• The Judas Boy (1968)
• Places Where They Sing (1970)
• Sound the Retreat (1971)
• Come Like Shadows (1972)
• Bring Forth the Body (1974)
• The Survivors (1976)

He followed that with the seven-volume series The First-Born of Egypt. The first book was Morning Star (1984) and the last was The Troubadour (1992).

Drama

The Pallisers, a 22-episode adaptation for the BBC of all six Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, first broadcast in 1974. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Reference

• Barber, Michael. The Captain: The Life and Times of Simon Raven (1997)

External link

• Obituary