Angus John Mackintosh Stewart

Angus John Mackintosh Stewart (22 November 1936 – 14 July 1998) was a British writer, best known for his novel Sandel. He was an accomplished portrait photographer. For much of his life he suffered from

Early life and education

Stewart was the third child of the novelist and Oxford academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994) and Margaret Hardwick (1905–1979). Shortly after their marriage in 1932, the Stewarts moved to Australia where, from 1935 to 1945, J. I. M. Stewart was Jury Professor of English at the University of Adelaide. Their son Angus was born in Adelaide in 1936. The family returned to England in 1949 when Stewart's father became a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford, and Angus was educated at Bryanston School and at his father's college.

Published works

Angus Stewart's first published work was "The Stile", which appeared in The London Magazine (Nov. 1961), and was reprinted with two more of his stories in the

Stewart also wrote poetry, some of which was published as Sense and Inconsequence (1972), with an introduction by his father's longstanding friend W. H. Auden.

Residences

Before and after Sandel, Stewart lived for long periods in

After his mother died in 1979, Stewart returned to England, living for the final twenty years of his life in an annex to his father's home at Fawler, near Oxford.

Works

• Sandel, Hutchinson, 1968. Reissued by Pilot Productions Ltd, 2013, in conjunction with the play adapted by Glenn Chandler.
• Snow in Harvest, Hutchinson, 1969
• Sense and Inconsequence: Satirical Verses, Michael de Hartington, 1972
• Tangier: A Writer's Notebook, Hutchinson, 1977

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