Greenwood, Walter, 1903-1974

found: LC data base, 3-20-85(hdg.: Greenwood, Walter, 1903- ) LC manual auth. cd. (d. 1974)

found: University of Salford Library Archives and Special Collections, via WWW, April 18, 2014(Walter Greenwood Collection; Walter Greenwood was born in Salford on 17th December 1903; he started to write fiction in his late twenties; his first novel, Love on the Dole, was published in 1933, and was an immediate success; over the next forty years Greenwood produced nine more novels, together with short stories, plays, film scripts, and occasional journalism; he was briefly a member of Salford City Council (1935-1936), and served in the Royal Army Service Corps during World War II; in 1938 he established a film company called Greenpark Productions Ltd and was involved in producing films for the Government during the Second World War; after leaving Salford in the mid 1930s, he lived in London, Sussex and Cornwall, before finally settling in the Isle of Man in the late 1950s; he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Salford in 1971, and died in Douglas, Isle of Man on 11th September 1974)