--studied piano and theory as a youth and began his career in journalism with the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph at 14 --worked 1960-7 as an editor, arts critic, and feature writer for London newspapers and magazines --Moved to Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 1967 --
Oh, blah. We could sure use a brilliant book that lays out the benefits of arts to society and the consequences of destroying funding, but this just isn’t it. I soldiered through it, because I like the guy who wrote it and because a mutual friend recommended it, but it’s very dreary.