Stanley "Stan" Barstow
(28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011)
[1] was an
English novelist.
[2]
Barstow was born in
Horbury, near
Wakefield,
Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended
Ossett Grammar School. He then worked as a draftsman and salesman for an engineering firm.
[3] He was best known for his 1960 novel
A Kind of Loving,
which has long been used as a set text in British schools and which has
been variously translated into a film, a television series, a radio
play and a stage play. The author's other novels included
Ask Me Tomorrow (1962),
The Watchers on the Shore (1966) and
The Right True End (1976). He frequently attended public events in
Ossett, where he grew up, and Horbury, his birthplace.
Barstow's other works included
Joby, which was turned into a television play starring
Patrick Stewart,
A Raging Calm,
A Season with Eros,
The Right True End,
A Brother’s Tale,
Just You Wait and See,
Modern delights, autobiography
In My Own Good Time (2001).
In later life Barstow lived in
Pontardawe, South Wales, with his partner, Diana Griffiths.
[4]
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