Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Laurie Lee NPG x139618

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Lee is best known for his autobiography, Cider With Rosie (1959), a vivid account of his Cotswolds childhood following the First World War. He left school aged fifteen, and in 1934 moved from Gloucestershire to London. He wrote poetry while working as a labourer and spending his evenings in Soho cafés. Lee also worked as a journalist, a scriptwriter and a documentary film-maker for the GPO. He published his first volume of poetry, The Sun My Monument, in 1944. Lee's travels in Spain during the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.