Stan Barstow
Stanley Barstow FRSL was an English novelist.Biography
Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School. He worked as a draughtsman and salesman for an engineering company. He was best known for his 1960 novel A Kind of Loving, which has been turned into a film, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. The author's other novels included Ask Me Tomorrow, The Watchers on the Shore and The Right True End. He frequently attended public events in Ossett, where he grew up, and Horbury, his birthplace.
Barstow's other works included Joby, which was turned into a television play starring Patrick Stewart, A Raging Calm, A Season with Eros, A Brother’s Tale, Just You Wait and See, Modern Delights and an autobiography, In My Own Good Time. He also wrote plays and short stories.
Barstow married Connie Kershaw in 1951 with whom he had two children. They separated in 1990, though never divorced. In later life, he lived in Pontardawe, South Wales, with his partner, Diana Griffiths.
