English novelist (1905-2000)
Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was one of the most respected English novelists of his time. He is probably best known for his twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
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People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.