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The first comprehensive biography of John Cowper Powys, the author of "Wolf Solent" and "Porius," reveals a man who saw himself as a magician and manipulator, to the occasional consternation of the family members and lovers who found themselves depicted in his writing. Born in Derbyshire in 1872, Powys was plagued by ulcers and possessed of a disastrous business sense, had various sexual preoccupations (he found the slender legs of young boys titillating), and tended to mythologize his own ...