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I would gladly have thrashed her for it. Unfortunately, thrashing your young woman doesn’t make her admire you more as a novelist.
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Birth: | 4th August, 1910 |
Death: | 5th September, 2002 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
Harry Summerfield Hoff was born in Crewe, Cheshire, England. He was an English novelist, writing under the name William Cooper. After graduating in 1933 he was a teacher in Leicester. He wrote several novels include: Scenes from Provincial Life, Scenes from Metropolitan Life, Scenes from Married Life, Memoirs of a New Man, Love on the Coast, Scenes from Later Life, and Scenes from Death and Life. He wrote 17 novels in all as well as short stories, two plays and a biography of his friend C.P.Snow.
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