Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (né Richard Herbert Vivian Lloyd;[1][2] 8 December 1906, London – 30 November 1983, Dublin), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn (/luˈɛlɪn/ loo-EL-in, Welsh: [ɬəˈwɛlɪn]), was a British novelist of a Welsh background, who is best remembered for his 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, which chronicles life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys.[3][4]
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