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Priestley was educated at Cambridge University, and by the age of thirty had established a reputation as a humorous writer and critic. His first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions ( 1929), but he became better known as a dramatist. Without doubt, his best-known play is An Inspector Calls ( 1946). His novel Angel Pavement ( 1930) further established him as a successful popular novelist, but his plays are more varied in tone, several being influenced by Brown's theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner ( 1932) and Time and the Conways ( 1937). He married the archaeologist Jacquetta HawkesJacquetta Hawkes nee Hopkins, ( August 5 1910- March 18 1996) was a British archaeologist and the wife, from 1953, of J. Priestley, her second husband. She is perhaps best known generally for her book A Land (1951). She was a prolific writer on subjects q, with whom he co-wrote some minor works.