Ronald Hardy

Ronald Harold Hardy (16 November 1919 – October 1991) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel ''The Place of Jackals'' was published in 1954 to acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel. A review in ''Time'' magazine claimed that the novel ''"establishes him as Graham Greene's No. 1 disciple."''

Hardy won the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fifth novel ''Act of Destruction''. Besides his nine works of fiction, he wrote one non-fiction book about the construction of the Uganda Railway entitled ''The Iron Snake''.

Hardy was also a TV screenwriter, with ''Suspense'' and ''Armchair Theatre'' among his credits. He qualified as a Certified Public Accountant before turning to writing. He married Betty Beattie and they had a son called David. After their marriage ended he married Joyce Cook and had two children, Christopher and Christine. Provided by Wikipedia