John Mainwaring John Mainwaring John Mainwaring (1724–1807) was an English theologian and the first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel in any language. He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1760, one year after Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey he published anonymously a biography 'Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel'. More than half of this biography is focused on the years before 1712, when Handel moved to London. Therefore, it is supposed he received information from
Daniel Mainwaring work bearing his real name were the 1954 shot-on-location crime thriller "The Phenix City Story" (1954) and the original version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). As director Joseph Losey, whose "The Lawless" was adapted by Mainwaring from the writer's own short story (publication undetermined), "The Voice of Stephen Wilder", noted:This is one of the things that makes me very close to Dan Mainwaring—his experience of Americana, the nostalgia of the good things about small towns. I remember the smell of burning leaves at night in the autumn too. And I remember the smell of Christmas, the sparkle in