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Wilfrid Sheed was born on 27 December, 1930, is an American novelist. Discover Wilfrid Sheed's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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1930

Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed (27 December 1930 – 19 January 2011 ) was an English-born American novelist and essayist.

Sheed was born in London, to Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers (Sheed & Ward) in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century.

1954

Wilfrid Sheed spent his childhood in both England and the United States before attending Downside School and Lincoln College, Oxford where he earned BA (1954) and MA (1957) degrees.

1957

He married Maria Bullitt Darlington in 1957 and they had three children; the marriage ended in divorce in 1967.

1961

Sheed's first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961 ; earlier in the UK), was based on his experiences at Oxford.

His biography Frank and Maisie was about his parents' literary establishment and intellectual world.

He wrote satirical novels about journalism and memoirs in his later years.

1972

He remarried in 1972 to cookbook author Miriam Ungerer.

At his death he was survived by his second wife, three children, a sister, two stepdaughters and four grandchildren.

The English writer and journalist Gilbert Keith Chesterton was his godfather.

2008

His book on American popular music, entitled The House that George Built with a little help from Irving, Cole and a Crew of about Fifty was published in 2008.

Garrison Keillor commented in a review of the book:

"Golden Age of American Song has been saluted and high-faluted in books and wept over repeatedly, but 'The House That George Built' is a big rich stew of an homage that makes you want to listen to Gershwin and Berlin and Porter and Arlen all over again ... Sheed's jazzy prose is a joy to read. It goes catapulting along, digressing like mad, never pedantic, a little frantic, which is just right: the jazz song, like all true art, is a flight from depression, indifference, the cold blank stare, the earnest clammy touch."

2011

He died on 19 January 2011, aged 80, from urosepsis in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

2014

Sheed was a great-great-grandson of William Ward (cricketer) and of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk and Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons; a great-grandson of William George Ward; a grandson of Wilfrid Philip Ward; a nephew of Father Leo Ward, a missioner in Japan; the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed, the co-founders of Sheed & Ward; and the brother of the translator, Rosemary Sheed.

Among Sheed's more remote ancestors was John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk.