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Anthony Simon Thwaite was born in Chester in 1930 and spent the years of the Second World War with an aunt in Washington DC where he went to school. On his return he was boarded at Kingswood School, Bath, before studying at Christ Church Oxford. While there he edited Isis and co-edited Trio and Oxford Poetry 1954. From 1955 to 1957 he was Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Tokyo University. On his return to England he became a producer of features for the BBC Third Programme and then from 1962 to 1965 was literary editor of the Listener. From 1965 to 1967 he was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Libya, Benghazi. Later he became editor of The New Statesman, co-editor of Encounter and Director of Andre Deutsch Ltd. He had a sabbatical year as writer in residence at the University of East Anglia in 1972.

Thwaite published his first book of poems with the Fantasy Press in 1953 and his second Home Truths with the Marvell Press two years after Philip Larkin's The Less Deceived in 1957. A collected edition of his poetry was published in 2007 and Late Poems in 2010. Alongside Andrew Motion, Thwaite is literary executor of the estate of Philip Larkin, who died in December 1985. The executors of Larkin's main estate were Messrs Gosschalks of Hull. The Society of Authors now acts as literary representative of Larkin's estate, for the benefit of the Society of Authors and the RSPCA, according to the terms of Larkin's will.

Thwaite produced Larkin at Sixty (1982), and edited The Collected Poems (1988), Selected Letters (1992), Further Requirements (2002) and Letters to Monica (2011).

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Includes correspondence with Andrew Motion, the Society of Authors and various solicitors dealing with the financial and literary estate. Also includes papers relating to the publication of Selected Letters, Collected Poems, Further Requirements, and Letters to Monica