T.F. Powys

T.F. Powys (born Dec. 20, 1875, Shirley, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Nov. 27, 1953, Mappowder or Sturminster Newton, Dorset) was an English novelist and short-story writer whose works dealt mainly with the hardships and brutalities of rural life. The brother of the authors John Cowper and Llewelyn Powys, he did not go to a university but rather turned to farming for several years. Thereafter he lived frugally on an allowance from his father and on his income...