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   The eldest child was Helen Estella Martin (1907–1994), known as Stella Martin. She was to 1984 her father's official biographer, her work appearing in 2017 as Stella Martin Currey edited by James Martin Currey, under the title J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879–1966 ; [ 20 ] and also editor of the three Uncle books that appeared after his death.

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   J.P. Martin has 19 books on Goodreads with 1960 ratings. J.P. Martin’s most popular book is Uncle (Uncle, #1).

3. sf-encyclopedia.com › entry › martin_j_pSFE: Martin, J P - SF Encyclopedia

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   The official biography by Stella Martin Currey, J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle: A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition 1879-1966 (written 1984; 2017) includes several deleted chapters and original versions of revised passages from the novels. [DRL] see also: Dogs; Zoo. John Percival Martin. born Scarborough, North Yorkshire: 5 August 1879

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   Martin began telling Uncle stories to entertain his children, who later asked him to write them down so that they could read them to their own children; the stories were finally published as a book in 1. J.P. Martin (1879-1966) was born in Yorkshire into a family of Methodist ministers.

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5. www.penguin.co.uk › books › 324694Uncle - Penguin Books UK

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   J.P.Martin and his wife Nancy moved circuits every three years and worked among miners and slum dwellers, as well as among the comfortably off. He started telling the Uncle stories before the First World War and in 1934 the writers Stella Martin and R.N Currey urged him to write them down; it took thirty years before they got them accepted by Jonathan Cape in the satire rich sixties.

6. www.penguin.co.uk › authors › 162126J. P. Martin - Penguin Books UK

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   J.P.Martin was born in Scarborough in 1879. He became a Methodist minister in 1902 and served as a missionary in South Africa and as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1918 at the time when Allenby and T.E. Lawrence overwhelmed the Turks. J.P.Martin and his wife Nancy moved circuits every three years and worked among miners and slum dwellers, as ...

7. books.google.com › books › aboutJ.P. Martin : Father of Uncle, including the Unpublished Uncle

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   Jan 28, 2018 · J.P. Martin. Troubador Publishing Ltd, Jan 28, 2018 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 200 pages. The much-loved UNCLE series of children's books by JP Martin, illustrated by Quentin Blake, were fantastical, surreal, funny and heart-warming. Originally told by Martin to his children, they were finally published when he was over eighty years old - and the ...