10 Facts About Howard Spring

Howard Spring was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English.

Howard Spring began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children.

Howard Spring was born in Cardiff, the son of a jobbing gardener.

Howard Spring was forced to leave school at the age of twelve, when his father died, to start work as an errand boy.

Howard Spring later became an office boy at a firm of chartered accountants in Cardiff Docks and then a messenger at the offices of the South Wales Daily News.

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Howard Spring was keen to train as a reporter, and spent his leisure time learning shorthand and taking evening classes at Cardiff University, where he studied English, French, Latin, mathematics and history.

Howard Spring graduated to be a reporter on both the morning and evening editions of the South Wales Daily News.

Howard Spring described the offer as "irresistible" and the appointment proved successful.

In 1939 Howard Spring moved to Mylor in Cornwall to become a full-time writer.

Howard Spring was a successful writer, who combined a wide understanding of human character with technical skill as a novelist.