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| | Manchester novelists and writers include Howard Spring, James Hilton, Alan Garner of Owl Service fame and Sir Neville ... |
 | | Robert Oxton Bolt, the famous playwright, author and screenwriter, was born in 1924 at 13 Northenden Road, Sale, and lived there, above his father's furnisher's shop until around 1928, when the family moved to live at 68 School Road. |
 | | Bolt demonstrated outstanding skill in the dramatisation of political and moral issues, and was an expert in the use of dramatic structure, strong characterisation, and expressive dialogue. |
 | | Hilton was to become the author of two very famous classic novels, in a prolific and distinguished writing career, later adapted as films: "Goodbye Mr Chips" (which starred Robert Donat) and "Lost Horizons", both of which were to become successful films in their own right, the latter directed by Frank Capra in 1937. |
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