Information AboutAlan Ross |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ALAN ROSS | |
| 1922 births | |
| 2001 deaths | |
| indian poets | |
| british poets | |
| british magazine editors | |
| cricket historians and writers | |
| alumni of st johns college, oxford | |
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In 1940 he went to read modern languages at St John's College, Oxford , where he was a contemporary of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Ross represented the university at both Cricket and Squash but did not complete his studies after joining the Royal Navy in 1941 . During his first two years in the Navy, Ross served on several Destroyers escorting supply ships to the Soviet Union . On December 30 1942 Ross was almost killed whilst serving aboard HMS Onslow when he was trapped in the ship's hold, which was flooding, before he was rescued. This moment was immortalised in his poem ''J.W.51B a convoy''. After he was demobilized in 1946 Ross decided not to resume his studies at Oxford but instead tried his hand at journalism. In 1946 his first poetry collection ''The Derelict Day'' was published, it contained poems he had written whilst in the Navy. The following year the publisher John Lehmann funded Ross and the artist John Minton to travel to Corsica to produce the travel book ''Time Was Away''. In 1949 Ross married Jennifer Fry, only daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fry, Bt. of the Frys who founded the chocolate company. He became a sports writer for '' The Observer '' in 1950 and became the paper's cricket correspondent in 1953 , the same year his son was born. Throughout the 1950s Ross was a regular contributor to Lehmann's London Magazine , before taking over as the title's editor in 1961 . He edited the monthly magazine until his death, during this period it transformed from an academic literary review to a far more cutting edge review of the arts. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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