Editing Howard Spring (section)

{{Short description|Welsh writer (1889–1965)}}
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[[File:Writer Howard Spring.jpg|thumb|right|Howard Spring]]

'''Howard Spring''' (10 February 1889 – 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abfar.org.uk/ref/?Author_notes_and_lists:Howard_Spring |title=Biography and bibliography of Howard Spring – Howard Spring |work=abfar.org.uk}}</ref> He began his writing career as a [[journalism|journalist]] but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was ''[[Fame Is the Spur (novel)|Fame Is the Spur]]'' (1940), which was later adapted into [[Fame Is the Spur (film)|a film]] starring [[Michael Redgrave]], and later still a [[Fame is the Spur (TV series)|BBC TV series]] (1982) starring [[Tim Pigott-Smith]] and [[David Hayman]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba423457e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722213210/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba423457e |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 July 2012 |title=Howard Spring |work=BFI}}</ref>