William Pryor (writer)

William Marlborough Pryor (born 29 January 1945) is a British writer.
Pryor was born in Farnborough in 1945, to Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and , daughter of Jacques Raverat and his wife (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. 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, 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 Virginia Woolf & the Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship about the relationship between his maternal grandparents and the Modernist writer Virginia Woolf.

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