AKA Leslie Poles Hartley

Born: 30-Dec-1895
Birthplace: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England
Died: 13-Dec-1972
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Boat

Military service: British Army (1916-18, invalided)

Father: Harry Bark Hartley (solicitor)
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Thomspon
Sister: Enid Vary
Sister: Annie Norah
Boyfriend: David Cecil (biographer, b. 1902, d. 1986)

    High School: Clifton College (1910, for three months)
    High School: Harrow School
    University: Balliol College, Oxford University (1922)

    Commander of the British Empire 1956

Author of books:
Night Fears (1924, short stories)
Simonetta Perkins (1925, novella)
Killing Bottle (1932, short stories)
The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944, novel)
The Sixth Heaven (1946, novel)
Eustace and Hilda (1947, novel)
The Boat (1949, novel)
The Go-Between (1953, novel)
Two For The River (1961, short stories)
The Novelist's Responsibility (1967, essays)
The Collected Stories of L. P. Hartley (1968, short stories)
My Sisters' Keeper (1970, novel)
Mrs. Carteret Receives (1971, short stories)
The Harness Room (1971, novel)
The Collections (1972, novel)

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