Alan Bennett
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Hailing from Leeds, he earned a first-class history degree at Oxford and spent several years lecturing in medieval history before abandoning academia for the stage. A breakthrough came with the satirical revue that toured Edinburgh, London and New York in the early 1960s, earning him a Special Tony Award and launching a prolific writing career that spanned theatre, television and film. His work fo…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
