Writer Callow dies aged 82
WRITER and poet Philip Callow – writer-in-residence at Sheffield Polytechnic in the mid-1980s – has died aged 82.
Birmingham-born Callow began his career as a novelist in the 1950s with gritty portrayals of working-class life, but later turned to biography, writing about DH Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Van Gogh and Czanne.
Initially a clerical officer, Callow retrained as a teacher in the 1960s and taught creative writing at various colleges in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was appointed writer-in-residence at what is now Sheffield Hallam University.
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