| LC control no. | n 50014672 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6039.R3 |
| Personal name heading | Travers, Ben, 1886-1980 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Somerset (England) |
| Birth date | 1886-11-12 |
| Death date | 1980-12-18 |
| Place of birth | Hendon (London, England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | English literature |
| Profession or occupation | Litterateurs Dramatists |
| Found in | His The Dippers, 1920. His 94 declared, 1981: bk. jkt. (died 1980) His Five plays, 1977: t.p. (Ben Travers) Three farces and a comedy, 2013: title page (Ben Travers) back cover (born in Hendon, 1886; had an unsuccessful school career; found employment with the publisher John Lane in the firm Bodley Head in 1911; wrote more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of memoirs, and a book on cricket; war service in both World War I and World War II; received C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 1976; died in 1980) Wikipedia, viewed July 4, 2014: article, Ben Travers (Ben Travers, CBE [Order of the British Empire], AFC [Air Force Cross], born in the London borough of Hendon, November 12, 1886; died in London, December 18, 1980; after unsuccessful school years, he reluctantly joined the family business (grocers), including time in Singapore and Malacca; employed by John Lane as a publisher's reader in 1911; married Violet Mouncey in 1916, in the midst of his WWI service; after the war, they settled in Somerset, and he embarked on his writing career, most notably 8 plays that were part of the Aldwych farces of the 1920s and 1930s; further service in the RAF during WWII; writing hiatus after his wife's death in 1951, then a revival of activity and acclaim in the 1970s) |
| Associated language | eng |
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