Anybody heard of an author called Howard Apps?

[wolf63]

Hello

I am trying to find out more information about an author called "Howard Apps" or "Howard L Apps" - he seems to have used both names. I know that he wrote these books:-

☛ The Making of Jerry Dixon
☛ Chalky
☛ The waters of chance
☛ Lefty Taylor
☛ Spindle's Partner

I have been Googling for this information and will continue to do so (Googling prevents me from thinking about the document that is mega urgent and due tomorrow) and I hope to get some information.

But has anybody heard of him? Does anybody have any details about him?

[karenmac60]

The L stands for Llewellyn - that's all I know

[wolf63]

Thanks Library Lady.

My brother says that he read the books when he was young but I have never heard of him and am curious about why he appears to be the Invisible Man.

[karenmac60]

See now I'm intrigued. I can't find anything except websites selling his books - not a single mention of the man himself. Maybe it was a nom de plume, although you'd still expect to find a reference to him somewhere. This is all I got (I searched under Howard Apps too, but it all the results were to do with phone Apps)
http://www.google.co....1&fp=35ad8fed0ccf2163

[wolf63]

I think that it would be much simpler before the 'apps' for technology things started.

I am actually looking for it because my brother says that there is not much known about Apps. I took this as a challenge. I have found, like you, links to book selling sites. A little strange methinks.

[atalanta]

http://library.ox.ac....ecs=10&dbname=ADVANCE
This is the Bodleian entry for the author's works. If he published all his books in this country, then the Bodleian's collections must be complete, because every British publisher must by law give a free copy of each book they publish to each of the 6 copyright deposit libraries

[JGA1966]

Howard Llewellyn Apps (1908-76) published five novels for children between 1948 and 1957. He was educated at the Payne Smith School and Kent College in Kent and served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Apps worked as a local government officer, eventually retiring to Markyate, a small village near Luton in Bedfordshire. He married a Dutch woman, who emigrated to Australia after his death. Information taken from a short biography on the dust-wrapper of his novel 'The Waters of Chance' (1957) and an article by B. Smalley, 'A Boyhood Recalled: The Life of Kentish Author Howard L. Apps', published in the magazine 'Bygone Kent', Vol. 13, No. 6 (June 1992), pp.347-349