Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (1943-) was born in Portsmouth, U.K. Months later his mother was killed. Through the rest of the war he spent time in his grandparents' air raid shelter while his nanny, Kate Bryan, sang Welsh hymns to muffle the din of bombs and ack-ack. In 1952 he won a choral scholarship to Salisbury Cathedral School, and his family paid for his further education largely through earned scholarships. In 1965 he married an American, Carol Burtin. They live in Toronto. Fripp produced current...See more

Robert Fripp (1943-) was born in Portsmouth, U.K. Months later his mother was killed. Through the rest of the war he spent time in his grandparents' air raid shelter while his nanny, Kate Bryan, sang Welsh hymns to muffle the din of bombs and ack-ack. In 1952 he won a choral scholarship to Salisbury Cathedral School, and his family paid for his further education largely through earned scholarships. In 1965 he married an American, Carol Burtin. They live in Toronto. Fripp produced current affairs at CBC-TV, including a decade as the series producer of CBC's current affairs flagship, 'the fifth estate'. Medieval influences touch his writing; natural sciences, too, which he studied at the University of Bristol. Robert Fripp is the only writer in four centuries to have written a full length tragedy, Dark Sovereign, in English as it was available to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. See less