Richard Llewellyn

Richard Llewellyn was born in 1906 to Welsh parents and claimed all his life to have been born in St Davids, in Wales; it was established after his death that he had been born near London, in Middlesex. He served six years in the army in India and Hong Kong, was a dishwasher in a large London hotel, a journalist and a screenwriter. He gathered the material for his novel from families of miners in a Glamorgan valley. He later lived in Argentina, Israel and elsewhere, and died in Dublin in 1983.

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• NovelHow Green Was My ValleyRichard Llewellyn · 1939Literature