H l gee biography of abraham

English writer (1901–1977)

Herbert Leslie Gee (1901–1977) was a prolific English writer, mostly about the coast and countryside of Yorkshire, his native county.

He wrote under both his own name and the pseudonymFrancis Gay, under which he was responsible for the annual Friendship Books (first published in 1939).

He was an ardent Methodist. For some of his life he lived in Bridlington.

Publications

• 500 Tales to Tell Again (1955)
• The Adventures of Billy Bounser and Tommy Terror (1944)
• Always it is Spring (1951)
• American England (1943)
• And Pastures New (1954)
• Another Cheerful Day (1945)
• As it Happened (1955)
• Briefly: An Anthology of Wit and Wisdom (1964)
• Bright Interlude (Epworth Press, 1949), an account of a family holiday in Sandbourne
• Busy Streets (1950)
• Caravan Joe (1953)
• Chance Acquaintances
• The Cheerful Day (1950)
• Cloud and Sunshine: Some Account of a Plain Man’s Journey By Car from Yorkshire to