John James

Author: John James

John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and educated by the De La Salle Brothers at Saint Illtyd’s College there. He left in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the University of Keele. He was a founder of The Resuscitator in Bristol in 1963 and Arts Council Creative Writing Fellow, University of Sussex, 1978–79. He was Head of Communication Studies at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He won a Cholmondeley Award in 2014. He died in 2018.