Emlyn Williams (George Emlyn Williams) Biography

British dramatist, born in Flintshire, educated at Oxford University. The best-known of his many plays were the thriller Night Must Fall (1935); The Corn Is Green (1938), an autobiographical portrait of the successful education of a working-class Welsh boy; and The Wind of Heaven (1945), a variation on the Christmas story, transported to nineteenth-century Wales. Williams was also a professional director and actor, and appeared in many dramatic works, notably as a solo performer in his own adaptations of novels by Dickens. George (1961) and Emlyn (1973) are his autobiographies.