Paul Winterton
Paul Winterton was an English journalist and crime novelist. Throughout his career he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers.
Winterton was born in Leicester, the son of a left-wing journalist, Ernest Winterton, who was the Labour Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1929 to 1931. He was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Manchester and Purley County School in Surrey. He went on to take a degree in Economics at The London School of Economics. He was a reporter for The Economist for four years, and later for The News Chronicle. He was sent to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.
Winterton stood for the Labour Party at the 1931 United Kingdom general election in Canterbury, and at the 1935 United Kingdom general election in Mitcham.
After the war, Winterton turned to writing crime and mystery fiction full-time. He was a founder-member of the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and, with Elizabeth Ferrars, its first joint secretary.Filmography
