Greenwood, Walter, 1903-1974

LC control no.	n 85100255
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6013.R455
Personal name heading	Greenwood, Walter, 1903-1974 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1903-12-17
Death date	1974-09-11
Place of birth	Salford (Greater Manchester, England)
Place of death	Douglas (Isle of Man)
Affiliation	Salford (Greater Manchester, England). City Council Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Service Corps Greenpark Productions Ltd
Profession or occupation	Authors
Found in	His Love on the dole, 1969, 1984 printing: t.p. (Walter Greenwood) LC data base, 3-20-85 (hdg.: Greenwood, Walter, 1903- ) LC manual auth. cd. (d. 1974) University of Salford Library Archives and Special Collections, via WWW, April 18, 2014 (Walter Greenwood Collection; Walter Greenwood was born in Salford on 17th December 1903; he started to write fiction in his late twenties; his first novel, Love on the Dole, was published in 1933, and was an immediate success; over the next forty years Greenwood produced nine more novels, together with short stories, plays, film scripts, and occasional journalism; he was briefly a member of Salford City Council (1935-1936), and served in the Royal Army Service Corps during World War II; in 1938 he established a film company called Greenpark Productions Ltd and was involved in producing films for the Government during the Second World War; after leaving Salford in the mid 1930s, he lived in London, Sussex and Cornwall, before finally settling in the Isle of Man in the late 1950s; he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Salford in 1971, and died in Douglas, Isle of Man on 11th September 1974)
Associated language	eng