William Pryor

Who is William Pryor?

William Marlborough Pryor is a British writer.

Pryor was born in Farnborough in 1945, to Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie, daughter of Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen. His younger sister Lucy is a painter known professionally as Lucy Raverat. In 1969 he married Teresa Mary Kerrison, daughter of Roger Kerrison of Sloley Lodge. They had a daughter Lydia, who married Simon Bostock.

Pryor was educated at Eton College and studied Moral Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge

William Pryor became a beat poet and dadaist under the influence of Alexander Trocchi.

Pryor became a serial entrepreneur, starting the Airlift Book Company and The Green Catalogue. In 2002 he wrote a memoir of his addictions: The Survival of the Coolest which was published the following year. Pryor has stated his intention to turn this into a film with himself as executive producer.

In 2004 he published the book Virginia Woolf & the Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship about the relationship between his maternal grandparents and Virginia Woolf.