biography
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Llewellyn, Richard
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pseudonym of Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd
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pronunciation:
[hlooelin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–83)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, SW Wales, UK. He established himself, after service with the regular army and a short spell in the film industry and journalism, as a best-selling novelist with How Green Was My Valley (1939), a novel about a Welsh mining village. It was filmed under the direction of John Ford in 1941. Later works include The Flame of Hercules (1957) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982). |
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