Ted Walker
| Ted Walker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 November 1934 Lancing, England |
| Died | 19 March 2004 (aged 69) Valencia, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet, short story writer, travel writer, screenwriter, broadcaster |
| Nationality | British |
| Period |
1963–2001 Screenplay: Big Jim and the Figaro Club (1979) |
| Spouse | Lorna Benfell (1956–1987) Audrey Hicks (1988–2004) |
| Children | 4 |
1963–2001 Screenplay: Big Jim and the Figaro Club (1979)
Children's book: The Lion's Cavalcade (1981)
Autobiography: The High Path (1982)
Collected short stories: You've Never Heard Me Sing (1985)
Edward Joseph (Ted) Walker FRSL (28 November 1934 – 19 March 2004) was a prize-winning English poet, short story writer, travel writer, TV and radio dramatist and broadcaster.
Ted Walker was born in Lancing, West Sussex, the son of a carpenter from Worcestershire who had found work in the south-coast construction industry. Walker was educated at Steyning Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages. His earlier poems and later autobiographical work, in particular The High Path, show that his childhood appeared to have been unusually happy and totally remembered. However, there was tragedy too: both of his paternal uncles, who lived in shared accommodation together with Walker's parents, grandparents and aunt, were killed in World War II; George in North Africa and Jack on Shoreham Beach.
At the age of 15 he met Lorna Benfell, and almost immediately after they finished college they were married (in 1956, at St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea). At first they lived in west London and worked as teachers, she in Tottenham and he in Paddington and Southall. They had four children.
It was at school that Walker and John Cotton, a like-minded colleague, founded a poetry magazine, Priapus, an attractive if amateur production, copies of which are now very rare. Walker published some work in the early numbers, the beginning of his poetic career.
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