You don’t forget the language and he is wonderful at detail Michael Morpurgo, Daily Express He died in May 1997.Ī classic of English literature Good Book Guide He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991), which are also published by Penguin in a single volume entitled Red Sky at Sunrise (1992). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), a verse play for radio A Rose for Winter (1955), which records his travels in Andalusia The Firstborn (1964) I Can't Stay Long (1975), a collection of his occasional writing and Two Women (1983). Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language.
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