One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
Henry Williamson (1895-1977)
'Now there was a width and depth in the sky and on the earth and sea, and I knew why so many artists had come to paint along this coast, with its clear lights and distances.'
Best-selling author of Tarka the Otter (1927), Williamson arrived in Stiffkey in the icy New Year of 1936 and, against his better judgement, found himself buying a dilapidated farm here. Alternating between ecstasy and despair, The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) draws heavily upon his time on the Norfolk coast and provides a moving account of a decade of rural life. Williamson's experiences in wartime Norfolk, the sheer joy of the landscape tainted with the disillusionment and frustration of farming barren fields, impact upon his later fiction such as Lucifer Before Sunrise (1967).
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