Jack Trevor Story
Born
in Hertford, The United KingdomMarch 30,
Died
December 05,
Genre
Thriller, Fiction, Nonfiction
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Jack Story was the son of a baker's roundsman and a domestic servant. During the First World War his father was killed and then his mother moved to Cambridge and worked in one of the colleges.
As a youngster he worked as a butcher's lad making local deliveries. He stated that his early education was derived from 'The Modern Boy', 'Melody Maker' and Action publications.
Self-taught, he began his writing in the early s and it was said that he regularly wrote 4, words a day and often took only two or three weeks to finish a novel.
He was married three times and had eight children and also gained a reputation as a ladies' man and apparently he was often seen with glamorous women. As a consequence his domestic life was said to be chaotic, Jack Story was the son of a baker's roundsman and a domestic servant. During the First World War his father was killed and then his mother moved to Cambridge and worked in one of the colleges.
As a youngster he worked as a butcher's lad making local deliveries. He
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Jack Trevor Story, born , died December 7, .
NOTHING anybody wrote about Jack Trevor Story was ever half as funny as the stuff Jack wrote about himself, and plenty of journalists tried. Story’s very presence was enough to transmute life into comedy. And, like breathing mist on to a window, his characters came to life. Sometimes they even threatened to sue.
The one thing you could safely predict about Story is that he would remain broke all his life. A Guardian profile of him in said as much, and there was never any danger that he would disprove it. Anyone who could sell the sole rights in The Trouble With Harry to Alfred Hitchcock for £ was destined for the bread line. That was one of Story’s earlier and better known novels.
The title of another, also filmed, was Live Now Pay Later. It became a catchphrase for a style of life, but it was always Jack’s personal motto. When he was discharged from his second bankruptcy, he strode from court beaming and saying: “Thank Christ I can get into debt again now. I’m going to find myself one of these marvellous credit cards.”
Despite the one-liners
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() UK author who remains best known for his first novel, The Trouble with Harry (), not sf, which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in The rumours that he wrote several of the Volsted Gridban sf novels are unverified, but certainly he did produce many pseudonymous books over the first decade or so of his career, including several Westerns, all nonfantastic. His openly acknowledged work included some remarkable tales for the Sexton Blake Library, to which he contributed nearly thirty titles, those with some sf content including The Frightened People ( chap), about a Cold War-era panic induced by atomic radiation, and Danger on the Flip Side ( chap), which introduces video discs, the Invention of which did not in fact occur for several years. Several more of his novels used sf components to make their points about the decline of England and the loss of youth, including Hitler Needs You (), One Last Mad Embrace (), Little Dog's Day (), which is a genuine sf Dystopia, the surrealistic The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree (November February New Worlds; ), in which the Pope is kidnapped, Morag's Flying Fortress (),
JACK TREVOR STORY was a writer more often in the news for his complicated private life than for the books he wrote. His books (even his Sexton Blake detective stories) were idiosyncratic enough; his lifestyle thumpingly so. There can have been, surely, few popular writers (as a breed a fairly conservative bunch) who at one time shared a council house with both wife and, for want of a better word, mistress, all three having signed a contract setting out future nocturnal arrangements by rota, the fruits of both unions squashed up in the remaining bedrooms.
Story cheerfully thumbed his nose at the conventions and, like all genuine naifs, was always mildly puzzled when things — as they had a habit of doing -- got out of hand. His invariable response to a trying domestic situation was to flee, usually in the direction of someone younger, in some cases preposterously younger.
He seemed to spend his life fleeing — from wives, not-quite-wives, responsibilities, tax inspectors — and never quite making it (his first wife Evelyn was still doing his washing odd years after he had left her). He certainly never escaped the Inland Revenue, who were the cause of his two famous ban
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