Arnold Feinstein

EF 's poetry volume Talking to the Dead was dedicated to the memory of her husband, research chemist Arnold Feinstein .

EF , who was a contemporary of Hughes as a Cambridge undergraduate and a friend in later years, was commissioned to write this book three weeks after Hughes's funeral in 1999. The Sunday Times serialised...

Elaine Cooklin embarked on what she calls her long and very fruitful marriage with immunologist Arnold Feinstein .

EF 's husband, Arnold Feinstein , chemist and immunologist, died at home, of a blood disorder, after a very short but frightening illness.

The Belsize Park flat was shared with others, among them Elaine Cooklin's boyfriend Arnold Feinstein . He had a charming smile, extreme shyness coupled with readiness to talk where he felt at ease, and behind...

While EF and her family were living in Brighton in the 1960s, she one morning (running upstairs to give her husband the exciting news of her inclusion in a poetry anthology) found him in bed...

This shock changed her marriage but did not destroy it. In 1981 Arnold Feinstein was invited to apply for a distinguished Chair of Immunology in London. All kinds of advantages included escape from the mandatory...

This novel won the Daisy Miller Prize. It met with a very warm reception from reviewers, though some references to its being the work of a poet were ambivalent. Robert Nye in The Guardian called...

Years later this book came round on the trolley in the Californian hospital where EF 's husband was having a kidney removed; he said cryptically: So this is the talent I have been impeding.

Her husband , she said, assured her when she began to write plays (as also when she began to write biography) that she had no aptitude for these genres.

This opportunity arose from her guest editing an issue of Cambridge Opinion while the regular editors were sitting exams, in an issue she called The Writer out of Society. She had discovered Allen Ginsburg...

EF 's next three novels were Children of the Rose, 1975 (with a businessman protagonist, Alex Mendez, who spends years trying to trace his illegitimate child, and into whom she put a good deal...