Howard Spring (10 February 1889 - 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist.
He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels. The most successful was Fame is the Spur (1940), which has been both a major film starring Michael Redgrave and a BBC television series (1982) starring Tim Piggott-Smith and David Hayman.
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