'''Anthony Carson''' (1907-1973) was a British journalist and humorous travel writer.
==Biography==
Anthony Carson was the literary pseudonym of Peter Brooke,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carty |first1=T. J. |title=A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language |date=1995 |publisher=London: Mansell; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=9781884964138 |edition=1st |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoflite00cart }}</ref> born Peter von Bohr.<ref name="RM">{{cite web |last1=Mackay |first1=Ralph |title=Peter Brooke By Any Other Name |date=26 May 2012 |url=https://chumleyandpepys.blogspot.com/2012/05/peter-brooke-by-any-other-name.html |accessdate=8 June 2018}}</ref>
In the 1940s, he drank at [[The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia|The Wheatsheaf]] pub in Fitzrovia,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howse |first1=Christopher |title=The Train in Spain |date=2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1441198051}}</ref> London with [[Dylan Thomas]], [[Julian Maclaren-Ross]], [[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], [[Peter Vansittart]], [[Mulk Raj Anand]], [[Fred Urquhart (writer)|Fred Urquhart]], [[Paul Potts (poet)|Paul Potts]] and [[Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu|Tambimuttu]].<ref name="RM"/>
His portrait by [[Daniel Farson]] was included in the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] exhibition, ''Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson'', in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Press Release: Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson |url=https://npg.org.uk/about/press/press-release-famous-in-the-fifties-photographs-by-daniel-farson.php |accessdate=8 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925202356/http://www.npg.org.uk/about/press/press-release-famous-in-the-fifties-photographs-by-daniel-farson.php |archive-date=25 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is mentioned in the memoirs of Julian Maclaren Ross and [[Rupert Croft-Cooke]],<ref name="RM"/> and is one of the subjects of [[Paul Johnson (writer)|Paul Johnson]]'s book of biographies, ''Brief Lives'' (2011).
[[Colin MacInnes]] described him in ''[[The Observer]]'' as "one of the few great English humorous writers of the century".<ref name="RM"/>
==Songs== *''Violin: Sweet and Low Played the Bow'', written by Allan Gray & Peter Brooke, Sydney: J. Albert & Son, 1941
==Novels & travel writing== *''Our Lady of the Earthquakes'', London: Cresset Press, 1940 (published as Peter Brooke) *''Any More for the Gondola'', Essex: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1950 *''A Train to Tarragona'', London: Methuen & Co, 1957 *''On to Timbuctoo'', London: Methuen & Co, 1958 *''Looking for a Bandit'', London: Methuen & Co, 1961 *''Poor Man's Mimosa, or, Journeys in Modern Europe'', London: Methuen & Co, 1962 *''Carson was here'', London: Methuen & Co, 1962 *''A Rose By Any Other Name'', London: Methuen & Co, 1962 *''Travels Near and Far Out'', Pantheon, 1963 (with a preface by [[Evelyn Waugh]]) *''The Hiccuping Cuckoo'', London: Methuen & Co, 1965 *''The Sin of Summer'', London: Methuen & Co, 1965 (includes also ''The Adventures of Mr Quick'') *''The Golden Kiss'', London: Methuen & Co, 1966 (sequel to ''The Adventures of Mr Quick'')
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