J.L. Carr
J.L. Carr was born in Yorkshire into a Wesleyan Methodist family, his early life marked by academic setbacks and rejections.
After working as an unqualified teacher, he eventually gained teaching credentials and spent time in South Dakota as an exchange teacher.
He served in the RAF during WWII as a photographer and intelligence officer.
Later becoming a headmaster in Kettering, he retired from teaching in 1967 to write full-time.
He founded his own Quince Tree Press, publishing distinctive pocket-sized books.
An unconventional, fiercely independent outsider, he died in 1994, having crafted a small but celebrated body of literary work.
