Name Stan Barstow | Movies A Kind of Loving | |
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Occupation Novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Partner Diana Griffiths (1990-2011) Spouse Constance Kershaw (m. 1951) Books A Kind of Loving, Joby, A Raging Calm, In My Own Good Time, The Likes of Us: Stories of Similar People Keith Waterhouse, John Schlesinger, Willis Hall, Alan Bates | ||
Stanley Barstow FRSL (28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011) was an English novelist.
Biography
Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School. He worked as a draughtsman and salesman for an engineering company. He was best known for his 1960 novel A Kind of Loving, which has been turned into a film, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. The author's other novels included Ask Me Tomorrow (1962), The Watchers on the Shore (1966) and The Right True End (1976). He frequently attended public events in Ossett, where he grew up, and Horbury, his birthplace.
Barstow's other works included Joby, which was turned into a television play starring Patrick Stewart, A Raging Calm, A Season with Eros, A Brother’s Tale, Just You Wait and See, Modern Delights and an autobiography, In My Own Good Time (2001).
In later life, Barstow lived in Pontardawe, South Wales, with his partner, Diana Griffiths.