Rayner Heppenstall  

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John Rayner Heppenstall (27 July 1911 in Lockwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England – 23 May 1981 in Deal, Kent, England) was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.

Works

• Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality (1934)
• First Poems (1935)
• Apology for Dancing (1936) ballet
• Sebastian: New Poetry (1937)
• Poems (1938) with Lawrence Durrell, Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Edgar Foxall, and Oswell Blakeston
• The Blaze of Noon (1939) novel
• Blind Men's Flowers Are Green (1940) poetry
• Saturnine (1943) novel, reissued as The Greater Infortune (1960)
• Poems, 1933–1945 (poems) (1946)
• The Double Image: Mutations of Christian Mythology in the Work of Four French Catholic Writers of To-Day and Yesterday (1947)
• Imaginary Conversations: Eight Radio Scripts (1948)
• Three Tales of Hamlet (1950) with Michael Innes
• The Lesser Infortune (1953) novel
• Léon Bloy (1953)
• My Bit of Dylan Thomas (1957)
• Architecture of Truth: The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronnet in Provence (1957)
• Four Absentees: Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Eric Gill, J. Middleton Murry (1960)
• The Fourfold Tradition: Notes On the French and English Literatures, with Some Ethnological and Historical Asides (1961)
• The Woodshed (1962)
• The Connecting Door (1962)
• The Intellectual Part: An Autobiography (1963)
• Raymond Roussel: A Critical Study (1966)
• The Shearers (1969)
• A Little Pattern of French Crime (1969)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man (1969)
• French Crime in the Romantic Age (1970)
• Bluebeard and After: Three Decades of Murder in France (1972)
• London Consequences (1972) with Margaret Drabble, B. S. Johnson, Eva Figes, Gillian Freeman, Jane Gaskell, Wilson Harris, Olivia Manning, Adrian Mitchell, Paul Ableman, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Vincent Brome, Peter Buckman, Alan Burns, Barry Cole, Julian Mitchell, Andrea Newman, Piers Paul Read and Stefan Themerson.
• The Sex War and Others: Survey of Recent Murder, Principally in France (1973)
• Reflections on the "Newgate Calendar" (1975)
• Two Moons (1977)
• Tales from the "Newgate Calendar" (1981)
• The Master Eccentric: The Journals of Rayner Heppenstall, 1969–1981, ed. Jonathan Goodman (London and New York, Allison & Busby, 1986), 278 pp. ISBN 0-85031-536-0
• The Pier (1986)

Critical studies

• Buckell, G. J. (2007). Heppenstall – A Critical Study (DAP). ISBN 1-56478-471-1 : ISBN 978-1-56478-471-1