Writer, born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, SW Wales, UK. He established himself, after service with the regular army and a short spell in the film industry and journalism, as a best-selling novelist with How Green Was My Valley (1939), a novel about a Welsh mining village. It was filmed under the direction of John Ford in 1941. Later works include The Flame of Hercules (1957) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982).
Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) (December 8, 1906 - November 30, 1983) was a British novelist.
Born in Hendon, London in 1906.
He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he spent periods working in Hotels, wrote a play, worked as a miner and produced his best known novel.
Protagonists who assume new identities, often because they are transplanted into foreign cultures, are a recurring element in Llewellyn's novels, including a spy adventure that extends through several volumes.
Llewellyn married twice: his first wife was Nona Sonstenby, whom he married in 1952 and divorced in 1968, and his second wife was Susan Heimann, whom he married in 1974.
He died in 1983.
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