Short stories written by women From 1930 onwards Sansom worked in international banking for the British chapter of a German bank but moved to an advertising company in 1935 where he worked until the outbreak of World War II At this time he became a full time London firefighter serving throughout The Blitz His experiences during this time inspired much of his writing including many of the stories found in the celebrated collection Fireman Flower He also appeared in Humphrey Jenningss famous film about the Blitz Fires Were Started Sansom is the fireman who plays the piano. 10 example of short story After the war Sansom became a full time writer In 1946 and 1947 he was awarded two l Sansom was born in London and educated at Uppingham School Rutland before moving to Bonn to learn German. Women authors best sellers fiction From 1930 onwards Sansom worked in international banking for the British chapter of a German bank but moved to an advertising company in 1935 where he worked until the outbreak of World War II At this time he became a full time London firefighter serving throughout The Blitz His experiences during this time inspired much of his writing including many of the stories found in the celebrated collection Fireman Flower He also appeared in Humphrey Jennings s famous film about the Blitz Fires Were Started Sansom is the fireman who plays the piano. 10 example of short story After the war Sansom became a full time writer In 1946 and 1947 he was awarded two literary prizes by the Society of Authors and in 1951 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature He married actress Ruth Grundy. Example of short story about love As well as exploring war torn London Sansom s writing deals with romance The Face of Innocence murder Various Temptations comedy A Last Word and supernatural horror A Woman Seldom Found The latter perhaps his most anthologized story combines detailed description with narrative tension to unravel a young man s encounter with a bizarre creature in Rome. 10 example of short story William Sansom was once described as London s closest equivalent to Franz Kafka He wrote in hallucinatory detail bringing every image into pin sharp focus It was his strength and weakness it made his stories hauntingly memorable but his technique often left his characters feeling under developed. Unidentified female body found His style was as cool and painstaking as that of Henry Green also a wartime firefighter His 1944 collection Fireman Flower and Other Short Stories may be his pinnacle In The Little Room a nun waits for death after being bricked up in her windowless cell for an unnamed transgression To make her fate worse a meter on the wall marks the incremental loss of the air in the room and Sansom describes her changing state of mind with passion and clinical precision. Her fiction describes women The 1948 novella The Equilibriad owes a little too much to Kafka but shares the same strangeness as the hero awakes to find himself able to walk only at a 45 degree angle Sansom was also good with an opening hook One story starts How did the three boys ever come to spend their lives in the water main junction Sansom s publisher described his work as modern fables but what makes them so ripe for rediscovery is their freshness and currency His characters face inscrutable futures with patience and resignation knowing that they can do little to influence the outcome of their lives Sometimes terrible events such as the collapse of a burning wall slow down and expand to engulf the reader site_link Brooke Rose shares short story space with Sansom in Winter Tales no 8 and homages him in The Languages of Love site_link A Woman Seldom FoundIts a short story and I don t want to tell you anything about it Just read it don t make any judgement calls before you ve finished and don t look anything up about it just read it You ll be surprised A Woman Seldom Found Didn t see that coming What an awesome ending A Woman Seldom Found women take advantage of men s desires.

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