L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley lived from 30 December 1895 to 13 December 1972 and was an English novelist and short story writer. His first fiction was published in 1924, and his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy, published from 1944 to 1947, and The Go-Between of 1953, which was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973. He began writing stories at eleven, worked as an editor while at Oxford and spent many years reviewing books. His first novel, The Shrimp and the Anemone, appeared when he was forty-nine. He wrote about social codes, moral responsibility and family relationships, and many of his works show passion leading to disaster.