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Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television and film. Biography. Childhood in London and Surrey. Ronald Frederick Delderfield was born at 37 Waller Road, New Cross, [1] London, in 1912 to Alice and William James Delderfield (c. 1873–1956).
To Serve Them All My Days is a novel by British author R. F. Delderfield. First published in 1972, the book was adapted for television in 1980.
A Horseman Riding By is a sequence of 3 novels by R. F. Delderfield written between 1966 and 1968. It starts in 1902 at the tail end of the Boer War and is continued in the sequels to end in 1965. The first book is set in Devon in the early 20th century.
Several of Delderfield's historical novels and series involve young men who return from war and lead lives in England that allow the author to portray the sweep of English history and delve deeply into social history from the Edwardian era to the early 1960s. From Wikipedia.
27 giu 1972 · Mr. Delderfield first became well‐known in England as the author of comedies; one of them, the 1945 “A Worm's Eye View,” ran in the West End for more than five years.
R. F. Delderfield: (Ronald Frederick Delderfield), 1912–73, English writer, b. London. He did not start writing novels until he was 44, after having been a successful playwright and newspaperman.
"An enormous best seller, Theirs Was the Kingdom is the vast and richly satisfying saga of Adam Swann and a great family dynasty in Victorian England -- a magnificent novel, complete in itself, and the companion volume to R.F. Delerfield's God Is an Englishman.
