L(eslie) P(oles) Hartley
(December 30, 1895 - December 13, 1972) U.K.
Novelist
Born in Wittlesea, Cambridgeshire, the son of a solicitor who also owned a successful bricjworks, Hartley was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where his studies were interrupted by two years of service in WWI. At Oxford he met Lord David Cecil and Aldous Huxley, who gave him the introduction to the literary and social circles he desired.
Haward began his career as a reviewer and went on to publish 17 novels and 5 collections of short stories. He was awarded the CBE in 1956 and named a Companion of Literature in 1972. He died in the same year in London.
Hartley is noted for his exploration of the sinister. His stories were published as Night Fears (1924) and The Killing Bottle (1932). He established his name with the trilogy The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), The Sixth Heaven (1946), and Eustace and Hilda (1947), on the intertwined lives of a brother and sister; the latter is the title by which the trilogy is known.
Later books include The Go-Between (1953), A Perfect Woman (1955), The Hireling (1957), The Brickfield (1964), and The Love-Adept (1969).
The Go-Between and The Hireling were successfully filmed.
Excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, from Antiquity to WWII, Routledge, London, 2001 - et alii
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