Maurice Edelman - Amersham's politician and best-selling author
The new MPs included Harold Wilson, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Elected to Coventry West, one of the youngest MPs, 34-year-old Maurice Edelman, was a tall, urbane, well‐dressed writer who lived in Chesham Bois. As a novelist he joined Benjamin Disraeli and Jeffry Archer in the exclusive club of British MPs who were also best-selling authors. The Edelman Family Israel Maurice Edelman was born in Cardiff, the son of a Jewish photographer, who had emigrated from Germany in 1904. It ...
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