Len Deighton Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 19 pages of information about the life of Len Deighton.

Len Deighton Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 19 pages of information about the life of Len Deighton.
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Len Deighton was born in London on February 18, 1929. "My father was a chauffeur in London, in Marylebone, and my mother was a cook--sort of upstairs-downstairs scene you know."1

"Even as a child I knew it was the last glimpse of a world that was about to vanish for ever."2

At the age of eleven Deighton passed the entrance exam for Marylebone Grammar School. "That was the last exam I passed. Then the war came along and I was a messenger at my father's first- aid [civil defense] post. School was knocked out, but then they continued it for a day a week in a vicar's front room, or somewhere. I stayed in school until I was 16, but I couldn't understand what they were talking about--chemistry, algebra, physics and that."3 Deighton was to later regret the gaps in his education and worked hard to close them.

"My smartest days...

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