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Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers. [1] Early life. Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was orphaned at the age of 12, when his mariner father was lost at sea and his mother died only a few months later from cancer. [2] .
Leslie Thomas is a literature and fiction author that was born in Newport in the United Kingdom. He was born to a wandering Welsh sailor from Newport Gwent. While he was growing up, his father worked in merchant ships and was away most of the time.
The Virgin Soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by Leslie Thomas, inspired by his own experiences of National Service in the British Army. It was Thomas' debut novel ; he had previously published an autobiography.
- Leslie Thomas
- 1966
- The Virgin Soldiers
- Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective
- The Complete Dangerous Davies: "Dangerous Davies", "Dangerous in Love", "Dangerous by Moonlight"
- The Adventures of Goodnight & Loving
May 20, 2014 · Leslie Thomas, a top-selling British author who parlayed his experience as a soldier in Malaya into a darkly comic, wildly popular novel in which young troops strive to lose their virginity...
May 6, 2014 · Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service.
May 7, 2014 · The Welsh-born writer, who was brought up in a Barnardo's home, sold millions of books worldwide and was appointed an OBE in 2004. He wrote more than 30 novels, including Tropic of Ruislip and The Last Detective, and covered the Eichmann trial as a journalist.
