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...Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn's richly human first novel about a Welsh mining family, sold over 375,000 copies in the U.S. The movie made from it was voted the best picture of 1941. None But the Lonely Heart is utterly unlike that first success. It is a stream-of consciousness novel about two feverish weeks in the life of a 19-year-old London cockney. It was written while Llewellyn was serving in the British Army in Africa...
...Type and High Jinks. Novelist Llewellyn apparently intended to do for London Cockney Mott what James Joyce did for Dubliner Bloom in Ulysses. Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks...
...Author. Novelist Llewellyn is more interesting than his hero. His full name is Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, and he is so professionally Welsh that a map of Wales is engraved on his cigarette case. Llewellyn wears a big ruby ring, foppish suits, tight-waisted overcoats with outsize boutonnieres...
...Llewellyn has always been a little cryptic about himself. He likes to make remarks like "I have two birthdates, and the honor of choice between two birth places - London and St. David's in Pembrokeshire"; "At sixteen I was sent to Italy to learn hotel management, starting in the kitchen"; "I should describe the years up to 19 as turbulent. Realizing a need for discipline, I joined the ranks of H.M. Regular Army." But there is some biographical data Llewellyn does not hide...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...