Profile of John Pudney on Famous Like Me

John Sleigh Pudney (January 19, 1909-November 10, 1977) was a British journalist and writer. He was known for short stories, poetry, non-fiction and children's fiction (including the Hartwarp books).

He was educated at Gresham's Hall, Holt, where he knew W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, leaving in 1925. He worked for the BBC and the News Chronicle. During World War II he worked for the Royal Air Force, on intelligence and as a writer.

Works

• Spring Encounter (1933)
• And Lastly the Fireworks (1935) stories
• Open the Sky (1935) poems
• Jacobson's Ladder (1938)
• Uncle Arthur and other stories (1939)
• Dispersal Point and other Air Poems (1942)
• The Grass Grew All Round (1942)
• Beyond This Disregard (1943) poems
• South of Forty (1943) poems
• Who Only England Know (1943)
• Ten Summers: Poems 1933-1943 (1944)
• Almanack of Hope: Sonnets (1944)
• Air Force Poetry (1944) editor with Henry Treece
• Flight above Cloud (1944)
• The Air Battle of Malta (1944)
• Atlantic Bridge (1945) anonymously
• World Still There (1945)
• Edna's Fruit Hat (1946) stories
• It Breathed Down My Neck (1946) stories
• Selected Poems (1946)
• Estuary, a Romance (1947)
• Low Life (1947) poems
• Commemorations (1948) poems
• Shuffley Wanderers (1948) novel
• The Europeans (1948)
• The Pick of Today's Short Stories (1949) editor
• The Accomplice (1950)
• The Pick of Today's Short Stories 2 (1950) editor
• Hero of a Summer's Day (1951) novel
• Music on the South Bank : An Appreciation of The Royal Festival Hall.(1951)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 3 (1952) editor
• His Majesty King George VI (1952)
• Monday Adenture: The Secrets of Blackmead Abbey (1952)
• The Net (1952)
• A Ring for Luck (1953)
• Sixpenny Songs (1953)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 4 (1953) editor
• The Thomas Cook Story (1953)
• The Queen's People (1953) with Izis Bidermanas
• Tuesday Adventure (1953)
• The Smallest Room: a Discreet Survey Through the Ages (1954)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 5 (1954) editor
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 6 (1955) editor
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 7 (1956) editor
• Collected Poems (1957)
• The Book of Leisure (1957) editor
• Trespass in the Sun (1957)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 9 (1958) editor
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 10 (1959) editor
• The Leisure-Hour Companion (1959)
• The Seven Skies (1959) BOAC
• The Trampoline (1959)
• A Pride of Unicorns: Richard and David Atcherley of the R.A.F. (1960)
• Bristol Fashion. Some Account of the Earlier Days of Bristol Aviation (1960)
• Home & Away - An Autobiographical Gambit. (1960)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 11 (1960) editor
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 12 (1961) editor
• Spring Adventure (1961) children's fiction
• Thin Air (1961)
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 13 (1962) editor
• Pick of Today's Short Stories 14 (1963) editor
• The Hartwarp Light Railway (1962)
• The Hartwarp Balloon (1963)
• The Hartwarp Circus (1963)
• The Hartwarp Bakehouse (1964)
• The Camel Fighter (1964)
• The Hartwarp Explosion (1965)
• Winter Adventure (1965)
• Tunnel to the Sky (1965)
• The Grandfather Clock (1966)
• The Golden Age of Steam (1967)
• Spill Out: Poems and Ballads (1967)
• The Hartwarp Jets (1967)
• Flight and Flying (1968) editor
• Suez: De Lesseps' Canal (1968)
• Spandrels : Poems and Ballads (1969)
• Take This Orange: Poems and Ballads (1971)
• A Draught of Contentment. The Story of the Courage Group.(1971)
• The Long Time Growing Up (1971) novel
• Crossing London's River, the Bridges, Ferries and Tunnels Crossing the Thames Tideway in London (1972)
• Selected Poems 1967-1973 (1973)
• Brunel and His World (1974)
• London's Docks (1975)
• Lewis Carroll and His World (1976)
• Living in a One-Sided House (1976) poems
• John Wesley and His World (1978)
• Thank Goodness for Cake (1978) autobiography
• Writers' Workshop, poetry anthology, editor with Norman Hidden and Michael Johnson

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