Richard Perceval Graves

Richard Perceval Graves (born 21 December 1945) is an English biographer, poet and lecturer, best known for his three-volume biography of his uncle Robert von Ranke Graves. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John's College, Oxford where he read Modern History. He then taught until 1973, when he became a full-time writer. Graves is the author of more than nineteen books, including biographies of T.E. Lawrence, A.E. Housman, the Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys) and Richard Hughes. In 1999 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. From 2000 to 2019 he was Marketing Director of GWS Media Ltd., a new media company, while also Chairing the Powys Society from 2001 to 2005. Having completed a ghosted memoir by the late socialite Nicky Samuel, which is now available, he is currently working on a somewhat eccentric memoir of his own life, in which he aims to give a memorable account of what it was like being brought up in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The first two volumes, A Very English Family (1945-1954) and A Taste of Sparta (1954-1959) are now available. A third volume, Imperial Dreams (1959-1964) is expected later this year. Taken together, these volumes will constitute a unique social history of those years.