Howard Spring

Author, born in 1889 at Cardiff in Wales. He began as a journalist, but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels, the most successful of which was "Fame is the Spur" (1940), which has been both a major film and a BBC television series. He died in 1965.

Other works include:

• Shabby Tiger (1934)
• Rachel Rosing (1935)
• My son, my son (originally titled "Oh, Absalom") (1938)
• Time and the Hour (1957)