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Alfred Edward Lewis was born in Stretford, Manchester and was an only child. In 1946, the family moved to Barton-upon-Humber in Lincolnshire. As a child, Lewis contracted rheumatic fever and spent almost a year away from school in bed rest. During that time he read books and comics and drew constantly.
Sep 26, 2015 · GBH was published in 1980, and in many ways, it is Lewis’s apotheosis. The central character, George Fowler, is not a gun-for-hire but boss of his own criminal empire. The book relates the slow unraveling of Fowler’s world. The writing is lean, muscular and elemental, and there is not a word or phrase wasted.
Jan 21, 2018 · By Benjamin Myers. (Photo By TED LEWIS ON SET OF GET CARTER (1971)) When he died in 1982 at the age of 42, the novelist Ted Lewis had achieved some success in “that London” but now lived with his mother in his north Lincolnshire home town of Barton-upon-Humber. He did the rounds of the town’s pubs each night, occasionally playing piano ...
- Benjamin Myers
Sep 29, 2008 · Sep 29, 2008. The Man Behind Get Carter: Ted Lewis. Ted Lewis, the man who wrote so convincingly about London-based gangsters, came of age in the same small North Lincolnshire town where he later went down in flames. Lewis continued to live in Barton-Upon-Humber while attending Hull College of Art, commuting across the Humber estuary via ferry.
Oct 21, 2017 · Written by Nick Triplow — Meticulous and thorough detective work is at the heart of this compelling and detailed biography of Ted Lewis, the Humberside author of nine novels, who was a huge influence on Brit Noir and remains so for leading names in crime fiction today. Among those who admire and are inspired by Lewis’s pioneering writing ...
- Tom Faulkner
Jul 7, 2014 · Certainly Lewis’s early death had a lot to do with his obscurity. Ted Lewis died in 1982 of alcohol-related illness. He was only 42. His last book, GBH, had just been published as a paperback original in the UK. It was adorned with minimal (and inaccurate) copy and the book went unnoticed, the author’s death marginally noted.
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This review of “Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir” by Nick Triplow is a biography of the life and death of British writer Ted Lewis (1940 – 1982). Lewis only wrote seven or eight books, about the same number as Raymond Chandler to whom he has been compared.
