About Betty Rowlands
Lived 1923 – 2020 (aged 96). Betty Rowlands was a novelist and writer.
Betty Rowlands (6 October 1923 – 29 July 2020) was a writer of cosy crime mystery novels set in the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire.
Personal life Born in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, to parents Arthur and Kathleen Beatrice Howard (née Brockelbank), her grandfather was Sir Ebenezer Howard,
Writing career Rowlands began writing seriously when she moved to the Cotswolds and joined local writing groups. At the same time she began teaching adults English as a second language. A number of her early short stories were read on the BBC in the late 1970s and in 1988 she won the Sunday Express / Veuve Clicquot Crime Short Story of the Year Award.
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Who was Betty Rowlands?
English crime writer
When was Betty Rowlands born?
Betty Rowlands was born on 6 October 1923 in Letchworth Garden City.
When did Betty Rowlands die?
Betty Rowlands died on 29 July 2020 in Bristol.
What was Betty Rowlands's occupation?
Betty Rowlands was a novelist and writer.
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