Before World War II he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner and produced his best-known novel. He lived a peripatetic existence, travelling widely throughout his life. In the U.S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. Only after his death was it discovered that Llewellyn's claim that he was born in St Davids, West Wales, was false. Richard Herbert Vivian Lloyd (he later used the name "Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd") was born in Hendon, Middlesex in 1906, the second child and only son of Welsh parents William Llewellyn Lloyd, a hotel clerk and later the assistant secretary to a club, and Sarah Anne, née Thomas. Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd ( né Richard Herbert Vivian Lloyd 8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn ( / l u ˈ ɛ l ɪ n/ loo- EL-in, Welsh: ), was an English-born novelist of Welsh descent, who is best remembered for his 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, which chronicles life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys.
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