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John Berger

AKA John Peter Berger

Born: 5-Nov-1926
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 2-Jan-2017
Location of death: Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: England
Executive summary: British novelist, G

Military service: British Army (1944-46)

Father: Stanley J. D. Berger (d.)
Mother: Miriam Branson
Wife: (no children)
Wife: (two sons, one daughter)
Son: Jacob
Daughter: Katya
Son: Yves

    High School: St Edward's School, Oxford
    Conservatory: Central School of Art, London
    Conservatory: Chelsea School of Art

    The New Statesman Art Critic (1952-60)
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1972 for G

Author of books:
A Painter of Our Time (1958, novel)
Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing (1960, essays)
Toward Reality: Essays in Seeing (1962, essays)
The Foot of Clive (1962, novel)
Corker's Freedom (1964, novel)
Success and Failure of Picasso (1965, art criticism)
The Moment of Cubism (1968)
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1968)
Ways of Seeing (1972, art criticism)
G (1972, novel)
The Look of Things: Essays (1972)
A Seventh Man (1975)
Pig Earth (1979)
About Looking (1980, art criticism)
Once in Europa (1987, novel)
Lilac and Flag: An Old Wives' Tale of a City (1990, novel)
Keeping a Rendezvous (1991, art criticism)
To the Wedding (1995, novel)
Photocopies (1996, short stories)
King: A Street Story (1999, novel)


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