Alan Noel Latimer Munby

Alan Noel Latimer Munby (1913 - 1974) was an English author, writer and librarian.

Born in Hampstead, Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge. He is best known for his slim volume of ghost stories, "The Alabaster Hand", most of which was written in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War Two.

Munby's first marriage was to Joan Margaret Edelsten; his second marriage was to Sheila Rachel Crowther-Smith. [ "The Author's and Writer's Who's Who" (4th ed, 1960) ]

Works

*(ed.) "Letters to Leigh Hunt from his son Vincent" (Cloanthus Press, 1934)
*(with Desmond Flower) "English Poetical Autographs" (Cassell, 1938)
*"The Alabaster Hand and other Ghost Stories" (Dobson, 1949)
*"Phillips Studies", 4 vols.

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