biography
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| lived:
| (1914–97)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He was educated at the village school at Slad, where the family had moved, and worked as a scriptwriter for documentary films during the 1940s. His poetic works included The Sun My Monument (1944) and My Many-Coated Man (1955). His books Cider With Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and I Can't Stay Long (1975) are widely acclaimed for their evocation of a rural childhood and of life in the many countries he had visited. His last book, A Moment of War (1991), recalls his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. |
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