Winston Graham

Biography

Winston Mawdsley Graham was born in Manchester in 1910 and has become renowned as the creator of the Poldark series, a collection of historical novels set amid the early days of tin and copper mining in Cornwall. He spent thirty years at Perranporth, where the Cornwall landscape and seafaring communities helped to inspire his Poldark books. Graham also wrote crime-based thrillers, most notably Marnie, which was made into an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Sean Connery. Awarded an OBE in 1983 in recognition of his talents and achievements in literature, Graham's work has established him as a master storyteller. He died in l992.

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