Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Mark Hamilton Priaulx Raban (14 June 1942 – 17 January 2023) was a British award-winning travel writer, playwright, critic, and novelist. Background Jonathan Raban was born on 14 June 1942 in Norfolk. He was son of Monica Raban (née Sandison) and the Rev Canon J. Peter C.P. Raban, whom he did not actually meet until he was three. He was sent to boarding school at the age of five. He was educated at King's School, Worcester, where like his father he was unhappy but discovered the comforting value of literature. He went on to study English at Hull University, where he became friends with the poet Philip Larkin. He supported himself by teaching English and American Literature. Career Raban began his career lecturing at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He then moved to the creative writing department of the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. Among his pupils there were the future novelists Rose Tremain and Ian McEwan.