Llewellyn, Richard

Llewellyn, Richard

▪ Welsh author
byname of  Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd  
born Dec. 8, 1906, St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
died Nov. 30, 1983, Dublin, Ire.

      Welsh novelist and playwright, known especially for How Green Was My Valley (1939; filmed 1941), a best-selling novel about a Welsh mining family. It was followed by Up, Into the Singing Mountain (1960), And I Shall Sleep . . . Down Where the Moon Is Small (1966), and Green, Green My Valley Now (1975).

      Educated in Wales and London, Llewellyn went to Italy to learn hotel management but began working in the motion-picture industry in various capacities. After a time in the army, more film work, and some journalism, he wrote two successful mystery plays, Poison Pen (1938) and Noose (1947). Among his other novels are None But the Lonely Heart (1943; filmed 1944) and A Few Flowers for Shiner (1950). A Night of Bright Stars (1979), Llewellyn's 20th novel, is a fictionalized account of the Brazilian aeronautic pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont.

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