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Denton Welch [1915-1948] born in Shanghai, he was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire and went on to study painting at the Goldsmith School of Art. In 1935. He was severely injured in a cycling accident that left him an invalid for the rest of his life; but he continued painting, exhibiting frequently at the Leicester galleries, and began his career as a writer..

 Maiden Voyage (1943) and In Youth Is Pleasure (1944) were published during his lifetime, the remainder of his writing: Brave and Cruel (1946), A Voice Through a Cloud (1950), Journals (1952), an account of his wide travels, taken despite his bad health; I Left My Grandfather’s House (1958), which is only a very rough draft; and Denton Welch—Selections from His Published Works (1963), were published posthumously.