1. Leonard Wibberley wrote short stories, plays and long verse poems.
12 Facts About Leonard Wibberley
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In 1915, Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin, the youngest of six children.
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Leonard Wibberley's family moved to Cork and, until the age of eight, he was educated in the Irish language at Ring College, Waterford, Ireland.
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Leonard Wibberley's father, Thomas Wibberley, FRSA, Professor of Agricultural Research, University College, Cork and Queen's University Belfast, was an experimental agronomist.
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Leonard Wibberley wrote several books contending his methods and inventions would allow the UK, absent empire, to feed itself.
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In 1921, the elder Leonard Wibberley was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
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On his father's sudden death at age fifty in 1930, leaving a widow and six children, Leonard Wibberley was obliged to leave school and began a long career in newspapers, in London, as copy boy for the Sunday Dispatch, then reporter for the Sunday Express and Daily Mirror, and was assistant London editor for the Malayan Straits Times and the Singapore Free Press.
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Leonard Wibberley then emigrated to Trinidad, where he held several jobs, first, briefly, as editor of the Trinidad Evening News, thereafter as an oilfield worker for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd, before immigrating to New York City in 1943.
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In 1947 Leonard Wibberley moved permanently to California, working in newspapers, first as city editor of the Turlock Daily Journal, then as editor of the Independent Journal, San Rafael, next as copy editor then reporter, for the Los Angeles Times.
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Leonard Wibberley took part in plays, did local radio readings and wrote a weekly syndicated column for the San Francisco Chronicle, 'The Leonard Wibberley Papers'.
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Leonard Wibberley's writing activities included unpublished and uncompleted projects, such as an unfinished 1958 collaboration with his friend Rosalind Russell on a musical script adaptation from his McGillicuddy McGotham, titled "Little Mac".
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Leonard Wibberley died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, aged 68, on 22 November 1983.