| Description | A cutting of an obituary for John Cowper Powys printed in the S.F. Examiner [San Francisco]. The obituary relays the place of death as Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and the date of death as 18th June 1963 aged 90 years old. The obituary mentions his publications 'Wolf Solent' and 'A Glastonbury Romance', as well as his lecturing in San Francisco and at the University of California. It mentions that he had previously written critical essays for The Examiner. The piece mentions his political outspokenness, including his public comments about Abraham Lincoln. The text mentions that he spent the last 24 years of his life living in the Welsh town of Blaenau Festiniog and lived a life of seclusion, and a bronze plague that he was Powys was awarded in July 1958 by the Hamburg (Germany) free Academy of Arts, for his services to philosophy and literature. It is mentioned that Powys was a widower, with his only son having died in 1954. |