Literary biographer Humphrey Carpenter has died at the age of 58. I have been reading his biography of the "angry young men" movement and it´s participants in the 1950´s Britain the last few weeks. So slowly, because even if Carpenter´s style is the kind I like - informative, a little bit dry and somehow very "British" - I don´t really like the book´s subjects. They were not especially nice nor politically bright men and the fact that every one of them failed more or less in their careers is a happy thing. One can´t say the same about Carpenter. He was succesful in his chosen field, and if not a great master (á la Plutarchos), then at least a master craftsman.