Derek tangye bibliography examples
Derek tangye bibliography examples
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Derek Tangye
British author
Derek Tangye | |
|---|---|
| Born | Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (1912-02-29)29 February 1912 |
| Died | 26 October 1996(1996-10-26) (aged 84) |
| Spouse | Jeannie |
| Relatives | Nigel Tangye (brother) Colin Tangye (brother) Richard Tangye (grandfather) |
Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996)[1] was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years.
He wrote nineteen books which became known as The Minack Chronicles, about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall with his wife Jeannie, née Jean Everald Nicol.
The couple had given up sophisticated metropolitan lives, he as a newspaper columnist (during the war years he had worked for MI5) and she as a hotel PR executive, to live in isolation in a simple cottage surrounded by their beloved animals, which featured in nearly all his works.
He had two older