Laurie Lee
Novelist, Author
1914 – 1997
Who was Laurie Lee?
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the village of Slad and went to the Central Boys' School, Stroud, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.
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- Born
- Jun 26, 1914
Stroud - Also known as
- Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee
- Laurence Edward Alan Lee
- Laurie
- Laurence Edward Lee
- Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Katherine Polge
(1950/05/17 - 1997/05/14)
- Katherine Polge
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Marling School
- Died
- May 13, 1997
Slad
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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