Editing Winston Graham (section)

==Biography==
Graham was born in [[Victoria Park, Manchester]], on 30 June 1908. As a child, Graham contracted [[pneumonia]], and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than [[Manchester Grammar School]] which his father had in mind for him.<ref name="independent" /> Graham's father, Albert Grime, was a prosperous tea importer and grocer, but became incapacitated by a [[stroke]].

When he was 17 years old, Graham moved to [[Perranporth]], [[Cornwall]], where he lived for 34 years.<ref name="winstongraham.yolasite.com" /> He had wanted to be a writer from an early age and, following the death of his father, he was supported by his mother while he wrote novels at home in longhand and attempted to get them published.<ref name=independent>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/winston-graham-36740.html |title=Winston Graham obituary |work= The Independent|location=London|access-date= 9 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1435770/Winston-Graham.html |title=Winston Graham obituary |work= The Telegraph|access-date= 9 March 2015}}</ref>

During his youth, Graham was a keen tennis player and recorded in his diaries how many sets he played each day. He lived in Perranporth from October 1925 until January 1960, then briefly, during the summer of 1960, in the [[Southern France|south of France]] before finally settling in [[East Sussex]]. He was a member of the [[Society of Authors]] from 1945, chairman of the Society's Management Committee from 1967 to 1969<ref name="independent" /> and a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]. In 1983, he was made an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].<ref name="winstongraham.yolasite.com" />

In September 1939, Graham married Jean Williamson, having first met her in 1926 when she was 13 years old. She often helped Graham with ideas for his books, and the character of Demelza, in his ''Poldark'' series, was based in part on her. Graham's daughter said, "Father was the author but my mother helped with the details because she was very observant. She saw everything and remembered it all."<ref name = "ExpressPukas">{{cite news | url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/562702/Poldark-creator-s-Winston-Graham-hated-BBC-s-first-TV-adaption.html | title=Poldark creator hated first TV adaptation |work=Daily Express|access-date= 2 April 2017}}</ref> Jean died in 1992.<ref name="winstongraham.yolasite.com" /> They had two children, economist [[Andrew Graham (academic)|Andrew Graham]] and Rosamund Barteau.

Graham died on 10 July 2003, aged 95, at his house, 'Abbotswood' in [[Buxted]], [[East Sussex]].<ref name="independent" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winstongraham.org/lifeandtimes2/lifeandtimes2.htm|title=lifeandtimes2|first=John|last=Hunt|website=winstongraham.org}}</ref> His autobiography, ''Memoirs of a Private Man'', was published in September of that year.<ref name="winstongraham.yolasite.com"/>