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MacInnes, Colin (1914–76), novelist, the son of A. Thirkell, was brought up partly in Australia. The novels for which he is best remembered, City of Spades (1957) and Absolute Beginners (1959), describe teenage and black immigrant culture, and the new bohemian underworld of Notting Hill, coffee bars, jazz clubs, drink, and homosexuality. His other novels include To the Victors the Spoils (1950) and June in Her Spring (1952, set in Australia). MacInnes called himself an ‘anarchist sympathizer’ and defended several of the causes of the sixties, including Black Power and the writers of Oz.

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Colin MacInnes

Colin MacInnes , 1914-76, English novelist, b. London. Son of the novelist Angela Thirkell, MacInnes was educated in Australia and served in the British intelligence corps during World War II. He was best known for his "London novels," which delineate various types of London life. They display MacInnes's talent for acute observation, sympathy for the underdog, and interest in sociology. City of Spades (1957), for example, vividly depicts the life of black immigrants to England. The other "London novels" are Absolute Beginners (1959) and Mr. Love and Justice (1960). Three Years To Play (1971) is a novel set in Elizabethan London in which Shakespeare is a character. The essays collected in Out of the Way (1980) reveal MacInnes's broad concern with race, class, and crime.

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