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Alan Garner, 2010 Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934. He was raised in Alderley Edge, a well-to-do village that had effectively become a suburb of Manchester. His "rural working-class family", had been connected to Alderley Edge since at least the sixteenth century and could be traced back to the death of William Garner in ...
Oct 13, 2024 · Garner was created Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001. His archives were housed at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, U.S. In the memoir Where Shall We Run To? (2018), Garner chronicled his childhood during World War II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 10, 2021 · Alan Garner was born (in the front room of his grandmother’s house) in Congleton, Cheshire in 1934 and grew up in the nearby village of Alderley Edge. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, the first member of his family to receive anything more than a basic education.
Alan Garner, the son of Colin and Marjorie Garner, was born ("with the cord wrapped twice round my throat") in his grandmother's front room in Congleton, Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and grew up in Alderley Edge.
Oct 17, 2022 · He grew up in Alderley Edge, a Cheshire village at the base of a steep escarpment, or slope, of red sandstone and often known as The Edge. Now one of Britain's wealthiest villages,...
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Born in Congleton, Cheshire, on October 17, 1934, to a family of country people and craftsmen, he grew up in the village of Alderley Edge, where his ancestors had lived for generations.
Alan Garner was born in Cheshire in 1934 and grew up in Alderley Edge. In 2001, he was awarded an OBE for his services to literature. The achievements of Garner’s long and distinguished career have been recognised with numerous awards and honours.
