Nigel balchin biography
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Nigel Balchin
English novelist and screenwriter (1908–1970)
Nigel Marlin Balchin (3 December 1908 – 17 May 1970)[1][2][3] was an English psychologist and author, particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls from the Air, The Small Back Room and Mine Own Executioner.
Nigel balchin biography
Life
Balchin was born on 3 December 1908 in Potterne, Wiltshire,[1] the third and last child of William Edwin Balchin (1872–1958), a baker and teashop proprietor, later grocer, and Ada (née Curtis), the daughter of a railway guard.
His paternal grandfather, George Marlin Balchin (1830–1898), was a farmer of 800 acres from a long line of wealthy Surrey farmers in Milford. George Balchin moved during the 1870s to Reading to become a Storekeeper.[5] but his sudden decision in 1887 to cease work on his farm had a negative impact on the Balchin family's subsequent finances.
At the age of eighteen months,