Audrey Erskine Lindop
Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920, London – 7 November 1986, Isle of Wight) was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970.[1] She was married to the writer Dudley Leslie with whom she sometimes collaborated.
Her novel I Start Counting won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1967, and was made into a film starring Jenny Agutter. Other novels which have been filmed are I Thank a Fool and The Singer Not the Song.
Selected novels
- In Me My Enemy (1948)
- Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948)
- The Tall Headlines (1950)
- The Singer Not the Song (1953)
- I Thank a Fool (1958)
- Nicola (1959)
- The Way to the Lantern (1961)
- I Start Counting (1966)
- Sight Unseen (1969)
- Journey Into Stone (1972)
- The Self-Appointed Saint (1975)
Filmography
- Blanche Fury (1948) - screenwriter
- Tall Headlines (1952) - screenwriter, story by
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959) - screenwriter
- The Singer Not the Song (1961) - story by
- I Thank a Fool (1962) - story by
- I Start Counting (1970) - story by
- Danger on Dartmoor (1980) - screenwriter, story by[2]
References
- "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". BFI. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
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