Travers, Ben, 1886-1980
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Name (Latin)
Travers, Ben, 1886-1980
Other forms of name
Travers, Ben, 1886-
Date of birth
1886-11-12
Date of death
1980-12-18
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
English literature
Occupation
Dramatists
Litterateurs
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Three farces and a comedy, 2013:title page (Ben Travers) back cover (born in Hendon, 1886; had an unsuccessful school career; found employment with the publisher John Lane in the firm Bodley Head in 1911; wrote more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of memoirs, and a book on cricket; war service in both World War I and World War II; received C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 1976; died in 1980)
- Wikipedia, viewed July 4, 2014:article, Ben Travers (Ben Travers, CBE [Order of the British Empire], AFC [Air Force Cross], born in the London borough of Hendon, November 12, 1886; died in London, December 18, 1980; after unsuccessful school years, he reluctantly joined the family business (grocers), including time in Singapore and Malacca; employed by John Lane as a publisher's reader in 1911; married Violet Mouncey in 1916, in the midst of his WWI service; after the war, they settled in Somerset, and he embarked on his writing career, most notably 8 plays that were part of the Aldwych farces of the 1920s and 1930s; further service in the RAF during WWII; writing hiatus after his wife's death in 1951, then a revival of activity and acclaim in the 1970s)
- His The Dippers, 1920.
- His 94 declared, 1981:bk. jkt. (died 1980)
- His Five plays, 1977:t.p. (Ben Travers)