Stan Barstow

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Stan Barstow
Born Stanley Barstow
(1928-06-28)28 June 1928
Horbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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Baglan, Neath Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales
Occupation Novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
Education Ossett Grammar School
Open University
Spouse Constance Mary Kershaw (1951–1990; Separated)
Partner Diana Griffiths (1990-2011)

Stanley Barstow FRSL (28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011)[1] was an English novelist.[2]

Biography

Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School. He worked as a draftsman and salesman for an engineering company.[3] He was best known for his 1960 novel A Kind of Loving, which has been translated into a film, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. The author's other novels included Ask Me Tomorrow (1962), The Watchers on the Shore (1966) and The Right True End (1976). He frequently attended public events in Ossett, where he grew up, and Horbury, his birthplace.

Barstow's other works included Joby, which was turned into a television play starring Patrick Stewart, A Raging Calm, A Season with Eros, A Brother’s Tale, Just You Wait and See, Modern Delights and an autobiography, In My Own Good Time (2001).

In later life, Barstow lived in Pontardawe, South Wales, with his partner, Diana Griffiths.[4]

Bibliography

Novels
  • A Kind of Loving (1960)
  • Ask Me Tomorrow (1962)
  • Joby (1964)
  • The Watchers on the Shore (1966)
  • A Raging Calm (1968)
  • Through the Green Woods (1968)
  • The Right True End (1976)
  • A Brother's Tale (1980)
  • Just You Wait and See (1986)
  • B-Movie (1987)
  • Give Us This Day (1989)
  • Next of Kin (1991)
Short Story Collections
  • The Desperados and Other Stories (1961)
  • The Human Element and Other Stories (1969)
  • A Season with Eros (1971)
  • A Casual Acquaintance and Other Stories (1976)
  • The Glad Eye and Other Stories (1984)
  • The Likes of Us: Stories of Five Decades (2013)
Plays
  • Stringer's Last Stand (1972) (with Alfred Bradley)
  • Joby: a Television Play (1977)
  • 'We Could Always Fit a Sidecar' in Out of the Air: Five Plays for Radio (1978)
  • The Human Element, and Albert's Part: Two Television Plays (1984)
Autobiography
  • In My Own Good Time (2001)

References

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