William Marlborough Pryor (born January 29, 1945) is a
British writer.
Pryor was born in
Farnborough in 1945, to
Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie (née Raverat), daughter of
Jacques Raverat and his wife
Gwen (née Darwin) (granddaughter of
Charles Darwin). His younger sister Lucy (born 1948) is a painter known professionally as
Lucy Raverat. In 1969 he married Teresa Mary Kerrison, daughter of Roger Kerrison of Sloley Lodge.[1] They had a daughter Lydia (born 1970), who married Simon Bostock.
Pryor was educated at
Eton College and studied Moral Sciences (i.e.
philosophy) at
Trinity College, CambridgeWilliam Pryor became a
beat poet and
dadaist under the influence of
Alexander Trocchi.[
citation needed]
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.[3]