Richard Llewellyn
Novelist

Richard Llewellyn Net Worth

Richard Llewellyn was an English novelist born in 1906 who achieved great success with his works How Green Was My Valley and None but the Lonely Heart. He won the 1940 National Book Award for How Green Was My Valley and had a net worth of $1.7 million at the time of his death. Both of his novels were adapted into Hollywood films.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day December 8, 1906
Birth Place England
Age 114 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Sagittarius

💰 Net worth: $1.7 Million (2024)

About

Known for such novels-turned-Hollywood films as How Green Was My Valley and None but the Lonely Heart, this acclaimed English author earned the 1940 National Book Award for the former work.

Before Fame

In the years leading up to World War II, he traveled frequently and worked in the coal mining and hotel management industries. His first literary work, Poison Pen: A Play in Three Acts, was published in 1939.

Trivia

After working in the post-war years as a journalist reporting on the Nuremburg Trials, he began his career as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Family Life

Born to Welsh parents in Middlesex, England, Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd was married twice: first, to Nona Sonstenby (whom he divorced in the late 1960s) and later, to Susan Heimann.

Associated With

Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, and Anna Lee starred in the 1941 film adaptation of his novel How Green Was My Valley.

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