Leonard Alfred George Strong

Leonard Alfred George Strong

Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896-1958), a poet and novelist, born in Devon of half- Irish ancestry in 1896. He was educated at Brighton College and at Wadham College, Oxford. He worked as a pereparatory school master before becoming a devoted and fulltime writer in 1930. Many of his novels show a strain of the Macabre and violent. The successful Dewer Rides (1929), a novel of Dartmoor, was followed by a great deal of fiction from his pen. Some of it with Irish backgrounds. Travellers (1945) won the James Tail Black Prize.

Extremely versatile and fluent, he wrote plays and radio scripts, compiled anthologies, and produced several biographies and auto- biographies. His auto biography of his early years, Green Memory, published posthumously in 1961. His lyric verse collected as ‘The Body’s imperfection (1957) shows him pausing more reflectively than his vast output usually allowed.

Above everything his mastery can be marked easily in his prose compositions. He expresses his ideas lucidly and with conviction in 1956 Leonard Alfred George Strong L A G Strong is widely known for his brevity and lucidity.

He died in the year 1958.