Person    | Male  Born 3/9/1901  Died 11/11/1985

James Hanley

Categories: Literature

Countries: Ireland, Wales

Novelist and playwright. The ODNB says he was born Dublin 1901. Wikipedia says that's wrong; it was Liverpool in 1897. Left school aged 12 and educated himself thereafter. In WW1 he served in the merchant navy and then the army. His second novel, Boy, 1932 was successfully prosecuted for obscenity and supressed until 1990. His novels about the Fury family in Liverpool are semi-autobiographical. Lived in Wales 1930-63 and set some novels there. The BBC have produced some of his work on radio and television. Died at home, where the plaque is.

The portrait was painted by his son, Liam.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
James Hanley

Commemorated ati

James Hanley

James Hanley, 1897 - 1985, novelist and playwright, lived here. Lissenden Gar...

Read More

Other Subjects

George Borrow

George Borrow

Writer and traveller. Born George Henry Borrow, East Dereham, Norfolk. He travelled widely throughout Europe and Morocco and was also a great linguist. He caused a minor scandal, when, in a transla...

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

Writer. Born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams in Hillsborough Street, Roseau, Dominica. She moved to England in 1910 and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After marrying in 1919, she moved...

Person, Literature, Caribbean Islands, France

1 memorial
Giles Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey

Critic and biographer known professionally as Lytton Strachey.  At Cambridge he joined The Apostles.  Was a prominent conscientious objector in WW1. His Wikipedia page gives a comprehensive overvi...

Person, Literature

2 memorials
Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Writer on literature and theology, novelist and poet. Born Charles Walter Stansby Williams, 3 Spencer Road. He worked for the Oxford University Press (OUP) in various capacities for most of his lif...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Religion

1 memorial
Jane Loudon

Jane Loudon

Author and pioneer of science fiction. Born near Birmingham as Jane Webb. Wrote "The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" and published it in 1827, anonymously. This was reviewed favour...

Person, Art, Gardens / Agriculture, Literature

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Arthur Emeny
War dead, WW1
1 memorial