Llewellyn, Richard (1906-1983)

Welsh writer. How Green Was My Valley 1939, a novel about a South Wales mining community at the end of the 19th century, was made into a film 1941.

He also wrote the plays Poison Pen 1937 and Noose 1947, and several other novels set in various parts of the world, including None but the Lonely Heart 1943, A Few Flowers for Shiner 1950, and two sequels to How Green Was My Valley, Up into the Singing Mountain 1963 and Green, Green My Valley Now 1966.