A. E. Coppard
Birth date
January 4, 1878
Death date
January 13, 1957
Place of birth
Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Profession
Writing
Age
79 years
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Biography
Alfred Edgar Coppard (4 January 1878 – 13 January 1957) was an English author, noted for his short stories, many of which had rural settings. Largely self-taught, he was championed by Ford Madox Ford and Arnold Bennett, among others, in his lifetime, and more recently by Frank O’Connor, Doris Lessing and Russell Banks. Some of his stories were dramatised for British television in the 1960s and 1970s.