Llewellyn, Richard

Llewellyn, Richard lo͞oĕlˈĭn [key], 1907–83, Welsh novelist. He is best known as the author of How Green Was My Valley (1939), a story of life in the S Wales mining areas, and None but the Lonely Heart (1943). His later novels include A Night of Bright Stars (1979).

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