BRIAN FINNEY is an Associate Professor in English at California State University, Long Beach, USA. He taught at London University from 1964-1987, and, since emigrating to the USA, at UCR, UCLA, and USC. He has published" Since How It Is: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction" (1972)," Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography" for which he awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1979," The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century" (1985) and" D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers: A Critical Study" (1990).