4/14/2021Laurie Lee's "April Rise"
Laurence Edward Alan"Laurie"Lee,MBE(26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an Englishpoet,novelistand screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village ofSladinGloucestershire.His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogyCider with Rosie(1959),As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning(1969), andA Moment of War(1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit toSpainin 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join theRepublicanInternational Brigades.Bio via Wikipedia.