L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was an English novelist and short story writer best known for the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944-1947) and The Go-Between (1953), the latter of which won the Heinemann Award and was adapted into a film. His works often explored social codes, moral responsibility, family relationships, and the disastrous consequences of passion, earning him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Eustace and Hilda and appointment as a CBE in 1956. Encyclopaedia Penguin Books