Caradoc Evans (David Evans)

David Caradoc Evans was born on 31 December 1878 at Rhydlewis, in Cardiganshire, in a Welsh-speaking community; he lost his father early, left school at fourteen and went through a series of menial jobs before going up to London as a draper's apprentice. He attended the evening classes of a working men's college, became a journalist, wrote for the Daily Mirror from 1917 and edited a literary weekly from 1923 to 1929. He published under a Welsh forename and caused a scandal with every book. He died on 11 January 1945.

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