Laurence Housman - My failure, during the firs...

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Laurence Housman

English Playwright

Born: Jul 18, 1865

Died: Feb 20, 1959

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