Jeremy Seabrook Biography

British writer and journalist, born in Northampton, educated at Northampton Grammar School and Cambridge University. He has worked as a teacher and a social worker, written a play (Life Price, 1969, with Michael O'Neill), and contributed frequently to New Society, the Guardian, and other periodicals, on social, political, and ecological issues. His books include The Unprivileged (1967), a sympathetic account of working-class culture, and What Went Wrong: Working People and the Ideals of the Labour Movement (1978). His autobiographical Mother and Son (1979) is a vivid evocation of his own childhood as a twin in a single-parent family and a classic description of the social problems and intellectual successes of a post-war generation of state-educated children. His work combines a concern with the nature and causes of poverty and unusual delicacy of observation.