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Alphonse James Albert Symons (pronounced SIMM-ons;[1] (16 August 1900 – 26 August 1941) was an English writer and bibliographer.

In 1922,
he founded the First Edition Club to publish limited editions and to
organize exhibitions of rare books and manuscripts. In 1924 he published
a bibliography of first editions of the works of Yeats, and in 1930 he founded the Book Collector's Quarterly. He was an authority on writers and editions of the 1890s, and he published An Anthology of 'Nineties Verse in 1928.

Symons completed his first biography, Emin, Governor of Equatoria, in 1928. In 1933 he brought out a biography of the explorer H. M. Stanley. Neither created much of a stir. In 1934, however, Symons published his masterpiece, The Quest for Corvo, a biography of the English author and eccentric Frederick Rolfe (the self-styled Baron Corvo). Subtitled "An experiment in biography," The Quest for Corvo
was a groundbreaking work: rather than being a simple narrative of a
life, it describes an author's search for understanding of his subject,
revealing aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to
the author. Though it appears entirely natural, the work is very
skillfully orchestrated. The result is a vivid, prismatic portrait of
Rolfe, those who knew him, and of Symons himself.