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William
Golding, winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature, retired to live near Truro late
in life.
Sir
John Betjeman,
poet laureate, wrote of his love for Cornwall and spent much
of his life in the county.
Daphne
du Maurier celebrated
her love of Cornwall in many of her novels. She spent most
of her life living on the Cornish coast and said she could
not write in any other location.
Colin
Wilson, one of the original
“Angry Young Men” has lived and worked in Cornwall
for most of his life.
D.
H. Lawrence and
many of his contemporaries spent time living and working in
West Cornwall.
Wilkie
Collins, the Victorian
novelist, wrote “Rambles beyond Railways” after
a walking holiday in Cornwall in 1850. He also featured Cornish
scenes in some of his novels.
W.
H. Hudson,
well-known naturalist and travel writer wrote about the Land’s
End peninsula in 1908.
Mrs
Craik, author of “John
Halifax, Gentleman” wrote a book detailing her travels
around Cornwall in the 1880s.
Jean
Stubbs has been living
and writing in Cornwall for many years and has based her more
recent novels in the county.
E.
V. Thompson
is well-known for his Cornish novels. He is one of the many
authors who have found a haven in Cornwall.
Denys
Val Baker
lived and worked in Cornwall for many years, writing novels,
short stories and autobiographies based in the county.
Of course, there are many, many more
cornish authors who might appear on this list. One has
only to look at television plays and series, cinema and theatre
to realise the attraction Cornwall has for so many writers.
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