Giles Cooper

Giles Cooper (born Aug. 9, 1918, Carrickmines, County Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 2, 1966, London, Eng.) was one of the most original and prolific writers in Britain for the modern mass communications media. Educated at Lancing College near Brighton and in France, Cooper then studied at drama school and, after military service during World War II, was an actor for several years. In radio, for which he began writing in 1955, he found a medium ideally...