Background
George Graber was born on September 9, 1914 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to an English family.
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1972
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1975
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1988
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1998
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2014
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2015
George Graber was born on September 9, 1914 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to an English family.
George was educated mainly in China.
The son of a British soldier, he also pursued military service first as a British Army sapper from 1932 to 1936, then with the Royal Engineers during World War II, becoming a major. From 1936 to 1939 and after 1945, Graber worked as a civil surveyor in Wales and eventually settled there.
George began his writing career in earnest in 1950 and at one time served as vice president of the Cardiff Writers’ Circle. Some of his most famous works, "Rape of the Fair Country", "Hosts of Rebecca" and "Song of the Earth", form the first part of the "Mortymer Saga", and are part of a series of Cordell novels that portray the turbulent history of early industrial Wales. In 1963 he published "The Race of the Tiger", a novel about an Irish clan, the O'Haras, who in the mid-19th century emigrate to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to work in the booming iron and steel industry. In 1972, Cordell began what is referred to by his readers as his second "Welsh trilogy" beginning with "The Fire People", set in Merthyr Tydfil against the background of the 1831 Merthyr Rising, for which Cordell did considerable research.
George was a member of the Welsh Nationalist Party and advocated self-government in his adopted country. He certainly remained on the political left for the rest of his life.
Alexander Cordell was married twice, to Rosina Wells and Elsie May Donovan. He had a daughter Georgina.
