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Robert Westerby (3 July 1909 in Hackney, England – 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, United States), [1] was a writer of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television.
Robert Westerby was born on 3 July 1909 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Spider and the Fly (1949), War and Peace (1956) and Don't Ever Leave Me (1949). He was married to Elizabeth. He died on 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Writer, Soundtrack
- July 3, 1909
- Robert Westerby
- November 16, 1968
Wide Boys Never Work (1937) by Robert Westerby is a classic slice of underworld flavoured London literature. For many years it's unavailability gave it mythic status, something Iain Sinclair lovingly chronicles in his excellent introduction to this 2008 edition.
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- Robert Westerby, Iain Sinclair
Robert Westerby was born in Hackney, London, in 1909. From an early age he enjoyed writing sketches and plays for his family and by his early twenties had been successful in placing short stories and articles in national newspapers and magazines.
Whilst Robert Westerby wrote about the wide boys that never worked he worried and felt for the real boys that couldn’t get work in those depressed decades of the 1920s and 1930s. In Wide Boys he refers to ‘the decent men, the hard and disillusioned men, who file slowly through the Labour Exchange’ and he often made the connection between ...
Wide Boys Never Work (1937) by Robert Westerby is a classic slice of underworld flavoured London literature. For many years it's unavailability gave it mythic status, something Iain Sinclair lovingly chronicles in his excellent introduction to this 2008 edition republished by London Books.
Robert Westerby (born 3 July 1909 in Hackney, England, died 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, United States), was an author of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television.
