High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by the poet and writer Philip Larkin (1922–1985). In 1943, towards the end of his time as an undergraduate at St John`s College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name. The style he adopted parodies that of popular writers of contemporary girls` school fiction, but the extent of the stories` homoerotic content suggests they were written primarily for adult male titillation.