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BAKER, Frank - author - died in Porthleven 1982.




Frank Baker (author)

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Francis Baker (22 May 1908 – 1982) was a British author of novels and short stories, mainly on fantastic or supernatural themes. 

He was also an actor, musician and television scriptwriter.

 His best-known works are his novels, The Birds (1936) and Miss Hargreaves (1940), and his memoir, I Follow But Myself (1968).



Francis Baker was born at Hornsey in London in 1908, the son of a marine insurance salesman
In 1982, Baker died in Porthleven

Novels

  • The Twisted Tree (1935)
  • The Birds (1936) reissued in 2013 by Valancourt Books with an introduction by Ken Mogg
  • Miss Hargreaves (1940)
  • Allanayr (1941)
  • Sweet Chariot (1942)
  • Playing With Punch (1944)
  • Mr Allenby Loses the Way (1945)
  • Before I Go Hence (1946)
  • Embers (1946)
  • The Downs So Free (1948)
  • My Friend the Enemy (1948)
  • Blessed Are They (1951)
  • Lease of Life (1954)
  • Talk of the Devil (1956)
  • Teresa: A Journey Out of Time (1961)

Collections

  • Stories of the Strange and Sinister (1983)

Non fiction / Autobiographical

  • The Road Was Free (1948)
  • I Follow But Myself (1968)
  • Call of Cornwall (1976)


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