L. P. Hartley
Novelist, Author
1895 – 1972
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Who was L. P. Hartley?
Leslie Poles Hartley CBE, known as L. P. Hartley, was a British novelist and short story writer. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy and The Go-Between. The latter was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter. Its opening sentence, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there", has become almost proverbial.
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- Born
- Dec 30, 1895
Whittlesey - Also known as
- L.P. Hartley
- Leslie Poles Hartley
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Harrow School
- Balliol College
- Clifton College
- Died
- Dec 13, 1972
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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