to give up my job in the BBC," wrote George Orwell in As I Pleased (1947), "and I was asked to take over the literary editorship of Tribune, in place of John Atkins, who was expecting call-up." Indeed he was. John Atkins, who has died aged 92, spent a lifetime in literary pursuits and, in the 1940s was also a friend of John Braine, then a Bingley librarian, later author of Room at the Top, and of Dylan Thomas. The Welshman liked John's integrity and they played darts together.
from The Guardian: John Atkins
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