F. L. Green
Frederick Laurence Green (1902–1953) was a British author who had 14 titles published between 1934 and 1952. He is best known for his 1945 novel, Odd Man Out, which was memorably filmed by Carol Reed in 1947.
Born in Portsmouth, on 6 April 1902, Green published his first novel, Julius Penton, in 1934. It was his second book, 1939's On the Night of the Fire, which made his name. On The Night Of The Fire was also adapted for the screen in 1939 and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst.
In 1929 he married Irish-born Margaret Edwards, with whom he lived in Belfast from the mid 1930s. His last novel, Ambush For the Hunter, was published in 1952.
Green died in Bristol on 14 April 1953.
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