LC control no. | no 94037779 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Beachcroft, T. O. (Thomas Owen), 1902-1988 |
Variant(s) | Beachcroft, Thomas Owen, 1902-1988 Beachcroft, T. O. (Thomas Owen), 1902- |
Associated country | Great Britain |
Birth date | 1902-03-09 |
Death date | 1988-12-11 |
Place of birth | Clifton (Bristol, England) |
Place of death | Ware (Hertfordshire, England) |
Field of activity | Fiction Publicity |
Affiliation | British Broadcasting Corporation British Council |
Profession or occupation | Creative writers Periodical editors Publicists |
Found in | The 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.) |