Lt-Col. Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2000) was a British book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1948 to 1959.
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Background
Pryce-Jones was the son of Henry Morris Pryce-Jones, CB, CVO, DSO, MC and Marion Vere Payan Dawnay. His grandfather was the merchant entrepreneur Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones of Montgomeryshire. Alan was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1934 he married Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer (2 May 1914 – 13 February 1953), a daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer, a French-born banker, and great-granddaughter of Baron Max Springer. In 1968 he married Mrs Mary Jean Kempner Thorne.
Professional career
Pryce-Jones was assistant editor, The London Mercury, 1928–32. He served in the war of 1939–45 in France, Italy and Austria. He was editor, The Times Literary Supplement, 1948–59, book critic for the New York Herald Tribune, 1963–66, the World Journal Tribune, 1967–68, Newsday, 1969–71, and theatre critic for Theatre Arts from 1963. He was director, Old Vic Trust, 1950–61, He was a member of Council, Royal College of Music, 1956–61, and program associate, The Humanities and Arts Program, Ford Foundation, New York, 1961–63.