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- In full:
- George Oliver Onions
- Born:
- 1873, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.
- Died:
- April 9, 1961, Aberystwyth, Wales (aged 88)
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Oliver Onions
British author
Also known as: George Oliver Onions
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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