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magazine. In short order he became a
Catholic convert, and married Margaret Edwards in 1937 (with whom he later had two children: Adam Heppenstall and Lindy Heppenstall, later Foord). In the mid-1930s he was influenced by
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shared a flat in
Lawford Road, Camden. Heppenstall once came home drunk and noisy, and when Orwell emerged from his bedroom and asked him to pipe down, Heppenstall took a swing at him. Orwell then beat him up with a
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on radio as a feature writer and producer, and then for two further years as a drama producer. His contemporaries in the department included the fellow poets
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After his death, Heppenstall's journals were published: they caused some controversy by revealing his hostility to fellow writers such as
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The intellectuals and the masses : pride and prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880–1939
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Bluebeard and After: Three Decades of Murder in France
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343:Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality
302:Later in life Heppenstall moved to the town of
281:. One of his early adaptations was of Orwell's
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1004:George Orwell: A Kind of Compulsion 1903–1936
715:. New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 1975.
889:Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939–45
509:Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man
422:Imaginary Conversations: Eight Radio Scripts
123:. He was also posted to Northern Ireland.
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