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Keith Spencer Waterhouse CBE (6 February 1929 – 4 September 2009 [1]) was a British novelist and newspaper columnist and the writer of many television series. He was also a noted arbiter of newspaper style and journalistic writing.
Keith Waterhouse (born Feb. 6, 1929, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 4, 2009, London) was an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter noted for his ability to create comedy and satire out of depressing human predicaments.
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Sep 5, 2009 · Keith Waterhouse, whose 1959 novel, “Billy Liar,” placed him at the forefront of a rising generation of working-class writers from northern England, and whose many plays, notably “Jeffrey...
Keith Spencer Waterhouse, writer: born Leeds 6 February 1929; CBE 1991; married 1950 Joan Foster (three children), 1984 Stella Bingham (divorced); died London 4 September 2009.
Keith Waterhouse was born in 1929 in Leeds, and was a novelist, columnist, playwright and screenwriter. He started out as a reporter with the Yorkshire Evening Post in 1949 and later wrote for Punch, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mirror.
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Sep 4, 2009 · Keith Waterhouse, who has died at the age of 80, was a spirit of more than one lost age. His acerbic, precise and accessible writing kept his name and columns before the large readership of...
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Sep 7, 2009 · Keith Waterhouse was “the journalist’s journalist, the columnist’s columnist…the best by a mile”, according to Michael Parkinson. Here we summarise some of the best of the tributes to...
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