Jeremy Brooks was born in Southampton in 1926. To support himself while writing he worked as a wine waiter at the Portmeirion Hotel and was later to write a novel, The Water Carnival(1957), satirising the Italianate village. Jampot Smith was published in 1960, Henry's War in 1962 and Smith as Hero in 1964. He later embarked on ... Read morea theatrical career, which included a period as the literary manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall from 1962 to 1969. He was responsible, with Kitty Hunter-Blair, for a number of ground-breaking adaptations of plays by Russian dramatists including Maxim Gorky and Nikolai Gogol. His last published work was a collection of short stories, entitled Doing the Voices(1986). Show Less