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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ted_Lewis_(writer)Ted Lewis (writer) - Wikipedia

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   Ted Lewis (15 January 1940 – 27 March 1982) [1] was a British writer known for his crime fiction.

2. www.newstatesman.com › culture › observationsThe godfather of Brit noir: cult crime writer Ted Lewis is ...

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   Jan 21, 2018 · (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.

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   Sep 26, 2015 · Ted Lewis had been sucked into a spiral of alcohol dependence. He was separated from his wife and family and, despite the fame afforded him by the success of Get Carter, had returned to north Lincolnshire, and was living with his mother in Scunthorpe, where he died in 1982.

4. www.crimetime.co.uk › The-Man-Behind-Get-CarterThe Man Behind Get Carter – Ted Lewis | Crime Time

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   Sep 29, 2008 · 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.

5. crimefictionlover.com › 2017 › 10Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir

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   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.

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6. tedlewiscentre.com › teds-legacy-and-workTed's Legacy and Work - The Ted Lewis Centre

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   Legacy of 'Edward Alfred (Ted) Lewis'. Alfred Edward Lewis was born in Stretford, Manchester in January 1940 as an only child. In 1946, the family moved to Barton-upon-Humber in Lincolnshire. When he was six, Lewis contracted rheumatic fever and spent time recovering, spending this time reading and drawing. These activities defined his lifetime ...

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   Who was Ted Lewis?

   • Ted Lewis (15 January 1940 – 27 March 1982) was a British writer known for his crime fiction. 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.

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   When did Ted Lewis die?

   • When he died in 1982, he was remembered in the literary world – if at all – solely as the man who “wrote that film with Michael Caine”. 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.

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   What happened to Ted Lewis?

   • Ted Lewis had been sucked into a spiral of alcohol dependence. He was separated from his wife and family and, despite the fame afforded him by the success of Get Carter, had returned to north Lincolnshire, and was living with his mother in Scunthorpe, where he died in 1982. GBH was published in 1980, and in many ways, it is Lewis’s apotheosis.

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   Did Ted Lewis die from an alcohol related illness?

   • One of the giants of English Noir crime writing, Derek Raymond, seems to have been in an alcoholic haze for most of his adult life. So, what do we make of the short life of Ted Lewis who died at the tragically young age of 42 from an alcohol related illness? Lewis was born in Manchester in 1940.

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   What is Ted Lewis' real name?

   • Ted Lewis, whose real name is Theodore Freeman, was formerly heard every Saturday evening with the Club Valspar. It is said that Ted is much better in person than on the radio. Ted had previously performed in the Greenwich Village Follies in 1922.

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   Will Ted Lewis reprint 'Get Carter'?

   • Be this as it may, despite a pretty dire Hollywood remake of Get Carter, Ted Lewis’s stock is still quite high in America and this autumn sees his three Jack Carter novels reprinted as high quality paperbacks by Syndicate Books, which also brought out a new edition of GBH earlier this year.

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8. www.amazon.co.uk › Getting-Carter-Nick-Triplow › dpGetting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir ...

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   LATE crime writer Lewis wrote Jack's Return Home, famously filmed as Get Carter with Michael Caine. These reissues of his less well-known work show what a talent he was. They capture the sleaze and violence of 60s London and the dark underbelly of the provinces.

   • Author: Nick Triplow