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Jack Trevor Story (1917–1991) was a British novelist and screenwriter best known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), which became a Hitchcock film, and for the Albert Argyle trilogy and Horace Spurgeon novels. Recent sources continue to summarize his life and works, including biographical entries and retrospective pieces that place his career in mid-20th-century British literature.[1][2][3]
Notable biographical touchpoints frequently cited: his prolific output from the 1940s through the 1970s, his distinctive satirical and comic style, and the sometimes turbulent periods in his personal and professional life, including multiple marriages and medical challenges. These aspects appear across encyclopedia entries and literary retrospectives.[3][1]
Public sources (especially film and author databases) continue to list his most enduring works and their adaptations, with The Trouble with Harry (the Hitchcock film) remaining the event most commonly associated with his name, alongside later bibliographic listings of his other novels and TV writings.[2][9]
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Urban District Lover by Story, Jack Trevor and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk.
www.abebooks.co.ukAuthor of Mais qui a tué Harry ?, The Urban District Lover, and Something for Nothing
www.goodreads.comJack Trevor Story. Writer: The Trouble with Harry. Jack Trevor Story was born on 30 March 1917 in Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), Wonderful Things (1958) and Dangerous Youth (1957). He died on 5 December 1991 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
www.imdb.com*Guardian*. His prodigious energy enabled him to keep his own projects going despite these distractions, and despite his tangled domestic life (three marriages, at least two long liaisons, not more than eight children) and his medical history (asthma, heart surgery, double hernia). He wrote *Live Now, Pay Later* in nine days, so that he could offer a story of his own to the film producer Jay Lewis, who wanted him to adapt a novel by someone else. … This is the most accomplished novel of the...
www.lrb.co.ukAuthor of The trouble with Harry, I Sit in Hanger Lane, Man pinches bottom, Hitler needs you, Morag's flying fortress, One last mad embrace, Albert Rides Again, Live Now Pay Later
openlibrary.orgEnglish writer
www.wikidata.orgKnown for: The Trouble with Harry, Wonderful Things, Dangerous Youth
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