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Robert Westerby (3 July 1909 in Hackney, England – 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, United States), [1] was a writer of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television.
Westerby's 1937 novel Wide Boys Never Work, a story of the criminal underworld before the Second World War, was the earliest published use of the term "wide boy". In 1956 the book was made into the British film Soho Incident (released in the United States as Spin a Dark Web).
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Robert Westerby was born on 3 July 1909 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Spider and the Fly (1949), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and War and Peace (1956). He was married to Elizabeth. He died on 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Robert Westerby (born 3 July 1909 in Hackney, England, died 16 November 1968 in Los Angeles County, California, United States), was an author of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television.
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Whilst Robert Westerby wrote about the wide boys that never worked he worried and felt for the real boys that couldn’t get work in those depressed decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
Robert Westerby has 15 books on Goodreads with 124 ratings. Robert Westerby’s most popular book is Wide Boys Never Work.
Wide Boys Never Work By Robert Westerby London Books £11.99, 226 pages. The fourth in a series resurrecting long-lost, London-based novels, Wide Boys Never Work was first published in 1937. In...
