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Beachcroft, T. O. (Thomas Owen), 1902-1988

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Personal name headingBeachcroft, T. O. (Thomas Owen), 1902-1988
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Variant(s)Beachcroft, Thomas Owen, 1902-1988
Beachcroft, T. O. (Thomas Owen), 1902-
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1902-03-09
Death date1988-12-11
Place of birthClifton (Bristol, England)
Place of deathWare (Hertfordshire, England)
Field of activityFiction Publicity
AffiliationBritish Broadcasting Corporation
British Council
Profession or occupationCreative writers
Periodical editors
Publicists
Found inThe man who started clean, 1937: t.p. (T.O. Beachcroft)
LC database, 10-13-94 (hdg.: Beachcroft, Thomas Owen, 1902- )
Wikipedia, December 4, 2018 (Thomas Owen (T. O.) Beachcroft (9 March 1902-11 December 1988 was born in Clifton, Bristol. Wrote several collections of short stories and novels. Beachcroft took a break from fiction to work as Chief Overseas Publicity Officer for the BBC, where he wrote a series of talks collected in Calling All Nations (1942). In 1949, he began working for the British Council as general editor of their series, "Writers and Their Work." He died in Ware, Hertfordshire.)