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Leslie Barringer
| Full Name: |
Leslie
Barringer |
| Born: |
Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Occupation: |
Editor, Author |
| Nationality: |
English |
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Biography
Leslie Barringer was an English editor and author of historical novels and historical fantasy novels.
Barringer was a Quaker, born in Yorkshire, England. He served in an ambulance unit during World War I, was wounded in action in France and returned to the UK in 1917. After the war he worked at various times as a civil servant (Senior Information Officer with the Central Office of Information) and as an editor for Scottish publishers Thomas Nelson & Sons, for the BBC as an editor on the Radio Times, and in Amalgamated Press as an editor in their encyclopedia department. At Amalgamated Press he provided outlines of world history for their famous Children's Encyclopedia. Barringer and his wife had four daughters.
Most of Barringer's written works were originally published in the 1920s and 1930s, and included the three volumes of the Neustrian Cycle and three independent historical novels set in medieval England.
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