Wolf Mankowitz
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Emerging from the East End’s Jewish quarter, he was educated at East Ham Grammar School and then read English at Downing College, Cambridge, under F. R. Leavis. After a stint as an antiques dealer, he turned his trade experience into the novel Make Me an Offer and soon gained fame with A Kid for Two Farthings (1953), which he adapted for Carol Reed’s 1955 film. He supplied the book for the West En…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources