Alexander Baron

Born in London in 1917, Alexander Baron joined the Communist Party only to leave it at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact. He served in the army during the Second World War and wrote three novels inspired by his wartime experiences, From the City, from the Plough (1948), There’s No Home (1950) and The Human Kind (1953). He wrote fourteen further novels, and also wrote screenplays and television scripts. Baron died in 1999.