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Up for sale "English Author" Laurence Meynell Hand Written 5 Page Letter Dated 1948.
August 1899– 14 April 1989) was the English author of over 150 books, who wrote
also as Valerie Baxter, Robert Eton, Geoffrey Ludlow and A. Stephen Tring. Meynell
was born in Wolverhampton, the
youngest son of Herbert Meynell, chairman of a brass-founding firm, and his
wife Agnes Mary Sollom. He was sent to the oldest Catholic boarding school in
the country, St Edmund's College, Ware,
and then served in the artillery in the First World War. He worked for a time as an estate agent and
as a schoolmaster before becoming a professional writer in the 1920s. A
contemporary satire, Mockbeggar (1924), won him the Harrap
Fiction Prize. Meynell wrote juvenile literature as Valerie Baxter
and A. Stephen Tring. His story for boys, The Old Gang, was
particularly well received. He also wrote detective fiction, with a recurring private-eye character,
Hooky Hefferman. Meynell
was twice married, his second wife was the actress Joan Henley from 1956 until her death in 1986. He had one
daughter, Ann Meynell b London 1938 by his first wife, Shirley Ruth Darbyshire
(1903–1955). He died on 14 April 1989 in Hove, Sussex.
