Francis Beckett [SEP] place of birth
by "Guardian" associate editor Michael White.
Early life.
Francis Beckett was born in 1945 in Chenies, exactly 21 miles from the centre of London, because his father, John Beckett, just released from wartime internment because of his fascist past, was under a form of house arrest, unable to live within 20 miles of the capital or to travel more than five miles away from his home. His mother Anne Cutmore was the common law wife of John Beckett until 1963 when he finally divorced his legal wife
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- Francis MacManus publishes his first novel "Stand and Give Challenge" in Dublin.
- Kate O'Brien publishes her novel "The Ante-Room".
- W. B. Yeats publishes his poetry "The King of the Great Clock Tower".