His parable of collective social responsibility is a hardy classic but the Yorkshire playwright's wider legacy should not be neglected How on earth does one sum up JB Priestley? He wrote 39 plays, 26 novels and a huge amount of nonfiction and was dismissed by Virginia Woolf, with characteristic snootiness, as "one of the tradesmen of letters". But, in art as in life, tradespeople are invaluable and with one of Priest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM on November 3, 2025