Summary: <p><strong>Laurence Edward Alan</strong> "<strong>Laurie</strong>" <strong>Lee</strong>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MBE</a> (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poet</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novelist</a> and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Slad</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gloucestershire</a>.</p><br><p>His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_with_Rosie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Cider with Rosie</em></a> (1959), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Walked_Out_One_Midsummer_Morning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning</em></a> (1969), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moment_of_War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>A Moment of War</em></a> (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spain</a> in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Republican</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brigades" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Brigades</a>.</p><br><p><em>Bio via Wikipedia. </em></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
