Vernon Scannell
Vernon Scannell was born in 1922, served in the Gordon Highlanders in World War Two and was a professional boxer and a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in the 1960s. He published novels, criticism, four autobiographical prose books and over a dozen books of poetry. He received the Heinemann Award, the Cholmondeley Poetry Prize and became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Vernon Scannell died in 2007.
Vernon Scannell was born in 1922, served in the Gordon Highlanders in World War Two and was a professional boxer and a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in the 1960s. He published novels, criticism, four autobiographical prose books and over a dozen books of poetry. He received the Heinemann Award, the Cholmondeley Poetry Prize and became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Vernon Scannell died in 2007. See less
