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Denton Welch by Gerald McKenzie Leet, 1935 Maurice Denton Welch (1915-1948) was an English writer and painter, admired for his his often painfully precise descriptions of people, objects, places and events. He studied painting at Goldsmiths' School of Art, London, until a bicycle accident in 1935 severed his spine and left him temporarily paralysed and permanently ill. He took up writing, producing three highly autobiographical books and numerous short stories and fragments.
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