Keith Spencer Waterhouse, the son of Ernest and Elsie Waterhouse, was born in Leeds in 1929. He was educated at various local council schools until the age of fifteen, when, under a wartime scholarshi...
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Although he has been far more prolific as a dramatist, Keith Waterhouse's critical reputation rests primarily on two novels: Billy Liar (1959) and its sequel, Billy Liar on the Moon (1975), both of wh...
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Keith (Spencer) Waterhouse