Oliver Onions

British author

Also known as: George Oliver Onions

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In full:: George Oliver Onions

Born:: 1873, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.

Died:: April 9, 1961, Aberystwyth, Wales

Also Known As:: George Oliver Onions

Notable Works:: “Poor Man’s Tapestry”; “The Story of Louie”; “The Story of Ragged Robyn”

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Oliver Onions (born 1873, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 9, 1961, Aberystwyth, Wales) was a novelist and short-story writer whose first work to attract attention was The Story of Louie (1913), the last part of a trilogy later published as Whom God Has Sundered, in which he achieved a successful combination of poetry and realism. Of his other novels, the greatest success was perhaps The Story of Ragged Robyn (1945), a tale of 17th-century England. His Poor Man’s Tapestry (1946) earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Onions was married to the Welsh-born novelist Berta Ruck.

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