7 Facts About Laura Lee

1. Laurie Laura Lee died in Slad on 13 May 1997, at the age of 82.

2. Laura Lee wrote travel books, essays, radio plays and short stories.

3. Laura Lee said that the creation of the book took him two years, and that it was written three times.

4. Laura Lee met Lorna Wishart in Cornwall in 1937, and they had an affair (Lorna was married) lasting until she left him for Lucian Freud in 1943.

5. At 12, Laura Lee went to the Central Boys' School in Stroud.

6. Laura Lee recorded an album, Two Sides of Laura Lee, while in a relationship with singer Al Green.

7. Laura Lee is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women's experience.