'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.'
Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the
English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was
educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. 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. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in
A Moment of War. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had
one daughter.
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). 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). 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). He
died in May 1997.
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