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2. Relatives. Jack Lee (brother) Laurence Edward Alan Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire .
Mar 21, 2024 · Laurie Lee (born June 26, 1914, Slad, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England—died May 13, 1997, Slad) was an English poet and prose writer best known for Cider with Rosie (1959), a memoir of the author’s boyhood in the Cotswold countryside.
Although best known for his memoirs, his first love was always poetry, and he published five volumes of poetry in his lifetime, including The Sun My Monument, The Bloom of Candles: Verse from a Poet’s Year, and My Many-Coated Man.
Jun 26, 2014 · Writer and poet Laurie Lee immortalised rural life in his book Cider With Rosie, which brought him worldwide acclaim. He was a much loved poet, novelist and screenwriter, born 100 years ago and...
May 15, 1997 · Laurie Lee, a poet, novelist and scriptwriter who grew up in a small Cotswold village, walked across Europe, fought in the Spanish Civil War and wrote about all three in a highly regarded...
May 13, 1997 · Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).
Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee’s poems also captured war, human relationships and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict.
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