biography
| name: |
Balchin, Nigel (Marlin)
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pronunciation:
[bawlchin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–70)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in West Lavington, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, after which he combined writing with his work as an industrial psychologist. During World War 2 he was scientific adviser to the Army Council, from which experience he wrote two well-known novels: Darkness Falls from the Air (1942) and The Small Back Room (1943). Later novels explore the problems of psychologically and physically disabled men, as in A Sort of Traitors (1949) and The Fall of a Sparrow (1955). |
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