Barry England

1932–2009

English playwright and novelist, born in London and educated at Downside School. He served as an army officer in the Far East and worked as an actor before writing for the stage and television; his first produced play, End of Conflict, opened in Coventry in 1961. Conduct Unbecoming, set in an Indian cavalry regiment in the 1880s, reached the West End in 1969 and Broadway in 1970. His debut novel won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and was filmed by Joseph Losey. He died in May 2009. Figures in a Landscape was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize.

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