This article is about the novel. For the film, see How Green Was My Valley (film). For the British TV series, see How Green Was My Valley (1960 TV series) and How Green Was My Valley (1975 TV series). For the Georgian film, see Great Green Valley.
How Green Was My Valley
First edition cover
Author
Richard Llewellyn
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Historical fiction
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Publication date
1939
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
651
OCLC
299207
Followed by
Up, into the Singing Mountain (1960)
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live. The author had claimed that he based the book on his own experiences but this was found to be untrue after his death; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, though he was of Welsh descent.[1] Llewellyn gathered material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach Goch.[1]
In the United States, Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.[2]
^ ab"Richard Llewellyn". BBC Wales. 28 November 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
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"Books and Authors", The New York Times, 16 February 1941, page BR12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2007).
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