Lee Langley

Background

Lee Langley was born in 1932 in Calcutta Ballygunge, West Bengal, India.

Career

The first of Langley’s books to attract attention was her 1972 novel, "The Only Person", which chronicles the tale of Lydia Carter, a bored suburban housewife who begins an affair with her children’s schoolmaster. Langley’s next novel chronicles the tale of a young woman writing a flip-diary-type column for a newspaper. The 1987 publication of "Changes of Address" marked a change of sorts for Langley as well: it was the first of her works to return to India, where she had spent a difficult childhood. "Persistent Rumours", Langley’s sixth novel, also deals with the legacy of colonialism and its effects on seemingly ordinary British families.

She has also written several film scripts and screenplays, including television adaptations of Graham Greene's "The Tenth Man"; several stories by Rumer Godden, and Barbara Taylor Bradford's "A Woman of Substance." She has written on travel and the arts for leading newspapers and magazines.

Achievements

• Lee is the author of a highly successfil book "Changes of Address", a largely autobiographical account of her childhood in India, the first in a loose trilogy of novels set in India which was short-listed for the Hawthornden Prize.

Works

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• audiobook

  • Butterfly's Shadow 2011

• book

  • Distant Music: A Novel 2003
  • Persistent Rumours 1994
  • A House in Pondicherry 2002
  • Conversation on the Quai Voltaire 2007
  • Inside Scenes of Atlanta's Black Week: A Series of Social Sensations and a Carnival of Crimes; Terminating With a Terrible Tale of Tragedies and Tears (Classic Reprint) 2018
  • Changes of Address 1995

Membership

• Writers’ Guild of Great Britain

• Royal Society of Literature

Connections

Lee was married to a writer Theo Richmond, with whom she has three common children.

Spouse:

Theo Richmond