biography
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Pudney, John (Sleigh)
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| lived:
| (1909–77)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Langley, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, he joined the BBC as a radio producer and scriptwriter, then worked on the News Chronicle and later The Daily Express and News Review. His poem ‘For Johnny’, written during an air raid in London in 1941, became immediately popular, later appearing in the collection Dispersal Point and Other Air Poems (1942). In addition to volumes of verse he also published many novels, such as The Net (1952) and Thin Air (1961), children's books, and numerous works of non-fiction, including a history of lavatories, The Smallest Room (1954). |
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