![]() In all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. In 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. ![]() After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. His father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. ![]() ![]() Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. ![]()
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