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Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. Life.
Jun 2, 1996 · Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television.
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Leon Garfield was one of the leading children's writers of his day, and a reteller and adapter of Shakespeare's plays. He described his aim as a novelist as being...
Leon Garfield has 107 books on Goodreads with 9793 ratings. Leon Garfield’s most popular book is Smith.
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award.
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award.
Leon Garfield. (1921—1996) writer. Quick Reference. (1921–96) Born in Brighton, where he briefly studied art. Garfield is an excellent but underestimated writer of what he called ‘that old‐fashioned thing, the family novel’—heavily atmospheric adventures set in ... From: Garfield, Leon in The Oxford Companion to English Literature »
