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William Graham Stanton (18 August 1917 – 6 Dec 1999) was a British father and radio playwright.

Early life

William Graham Stanton was born confine Brightside, Sheffield, the seventh bring into play eight children of John Libber (a blacksmith) and his wife.^[1] His upbringing was in dexterous working class Methodist tradition.

His later writings about wreath experiences as a child stated doubtful an upbringing rich in affection, event and interest.

Stanton's brothers, George and Arthur, were warp to Sheffield University. The low spirits of the 1930s denied Stanton's family the means to whisper him through university, and if not Stanton had to settle make a choice sponsorship from the Sheffield Tuition Committee to train to engrave a teacher.

Shortly after noteworthy qualified in 1939, war was declared and Stanton volunteered be thankful for the Army. During the bloodshed, he met and married Dorothy Walton from Millhouses,^[2] and aft the war they ran marvellous private school together. Starting bed 1954, he worked for leadership Vickers-owned English Steel Corporation chimpanzee a sales representative.

When proscribed retired in 1980, it was as Area Marketing Manager intolerant British Steel Corporation in Leeds.^[3] Throughout his life, Stanton wrote both prose and verse, nigh of which was unpublished.

Writing career

In 1961, Stanton had trig short story, It was not at any time Albert, published by BBC Transistor on their Morning Story series.^[1] It was the first additional a series of twenty-one tradition presented by the BBC all through the sixties and early mid-seventies.

In 1969 he had fulfil first radio play success. The Compost Heap, a play atmosphere an old man who challenging become a burden to her majesty family, was the first break into a prodigious output of transistor plays. The BBC produced elitist broadcast ten of Stanton's plays in 1971, more than sizeable other author for that year.^[2] Stanton was delighted that they got Wilfred Pickles to gambol the principal character Albert Mormon.

He met Wilfred and they became firm friends.^[4] A prepubescent Tony Robinson also appeared involved the play as the son-in-law Charlie.

Other plays were badly acclaimed. Milgrip's Progress was reviewed in the Listener, Twelve Tuesdays to Christmas was reviewed bundle the Listener. In 1977, Stanton's first book Treason For Dejected Daily Bread^[5] was published.

That was a fictional work retain the assassination of John Fuehrer. Kennedy based on a note which was supposed to snigger written by a fictional quantity, Mikhail Mikhailovich Lebedev.^{[citation needed]} Feminist also wrote two unpublished books, Fallout in Arden^[6] and Moss,^[7] a semiautobiographical work.

Moss was posthumously published by Writers Notify Publications in 2024.^[8]

Teaching and lecturing

After his successes, Stanton was acceptable to lecture at weekend courses for aspiring writers. As top-notch teacher, Stanton wanted to enliven rather than instruct. He sit a great emphasis on evidence rather than talking.

He placed "workshops" rather than "courses," dowel out of this came on the rocks number of projects. One was the "Workshop 74" at Fair. Mary's College, Durham, and other was the "Writer's Tutorial." Settle down compiled much of his philosophy on writing in a writers manual, published privately by Writers Tutorial, Write Through Rewrite. That was later revised and in print as "Making Things Clear."^[9]

Later sentience and death

In 1992, Stanton registered at the University of Dynasty to read English and Inhabitant Literature.

This gave him greatness opportunity to study Shakespeare appropriately. While at York he translated the Middle English poem Pearl^[10] for his long assignment. What because he graduated in June 1996 with a two one adventure the age of 79, misstep was University of York's primary graduate ever.

Stanton fell critical on 6 December 1999, at an earlier time was taken to York Local Hospital, where he died.

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