The White Bird: Writings

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Chatto & Windus, 1985 - Literary Collections - 300 pages

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Contents

Rembrandt selfportrait
3
The storyteller
13
On the edge of a foreign city
19
Copyright

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About the author (1985)

John Peter Berger was born in London, England on November 5, 1926. After serving in the British Army from 1944 to 1946, he enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art. He began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. He then worked as an art critic for The New Statesman for a decade. He wrote fiction and nonfiction including several volumes of art criticism. His novels include A Painter of Our Time, From A to X, and G., which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972. His other works include an essay collection entitled Permanent Red, Into Their Labors, and a book and television series entitled Ways of Seeing. In the 1970s, he collaborated with the director Alain Tanner on three films. He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre, The Middle of the World, and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000. He died on January 1, 2017 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe White Bird: Writings
A Tigerstripe book
AuthorJohn Berger
Editionillustrated
PublisherChatto & Windus, 1985
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 6, 2008
ISBN0701130067, 9780701130060
Length300 pages
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