The cowards never started - and the weak died along the way.

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J. B. Priestley biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of J. B. Priestley

Author Name:

J. B. Priestley

Born As:

John Boynton Priestley

Other Names:

Born:

13 Sep 1894

Died:

14 Aug 1984




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Dramatist, theologian and scientist                          
Selected Works:

Novels
Adam in Moonshine - 1927
Benighted - 1928
The Good Companions - 1929
Angel Pavement - 1930
Faraway - 1932
Wonder Hero - 1933
They Walk in the City - 1936
The Doomsday Men - 1937
Let the People Sing - 1939
Blackout in Gretley - 1942
Daylight on Saturday - 1943
Three Men in New Suits - 1945
Bright Day - 1946
Jenny Villiers - 1947
Festival at Farbridge - 1951
Low Notes on a High Level - 1954
The Magicians - 1954
Saturn over the Water - 1961
The Thirty-First of June - 1961
Salt Is Leaving - 1961
The Shapes of Sleep - 1962
Sir Michael and Sir George - 1964
Lost Empires - 1965
It's an Old Country - 1967
The Image Men Vol. 1: Out of Town - 1968
The Image Men Vol. 2: London End - 1968
Found Lost Found - 1976
[edit]Other fiction
Farthing Hall - 1929 - Novel written in collaboration with Hugh Walpole
The Town Mayor of Miraucourt - 1930 - Short story published in a limited edition of 525 copies
I'll Tell You Everything - 1932 - Novel written in collaboration with Gerald Bullett
Albert Goes Through - 1933 - Novelette
The Other Place - 1952 - Short Stories
Snoggle - 1971 - Novel for children
The Carfitt Crisis - 1975 - Short stories
[edit]Selected plays
Dangerous Corner - 1932
Laburnum Grove - 1933
Eden End - 1934
Time and the Conways - 1937
I Have Been Here Before - 1937
When We Are Married - 1938
Johnson Over Jordan - 1939
The Long Mirror - 1940
They Came to a City - 1943
An Inspector Calls - 1945
The Linden Tree - 1947

Last Holiday - 1950, wrote story, screenplay and produced the film
His play The Thirty-first of June was first produced in Toronto in 1957

The Thirty-first of June: A Tale of True Love, Enterprise and Progress in the Arthurian and AD-Atomic Ages
- Novel. December 1961 - BBC radio dramatization; one and a half hours
Novel - 1996 
31 June 1978 - TV Russian film; aka 31 июня.