James Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and educated at Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire. School director, editor and novelist whose books include A Day in Summer (1964), A Season in Sinji (1967), The Harpole Report (1972), How Steeply Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (1975), A Month in the Country (1980), which won the Narrative of the Guardian and was nominated for the Booker prize, the Battle of Pollock's Crossing (1985), also nominated for the Booker, what Hetty Did (1988) and Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers (1992 ).
He died in Northamptonshire in 1994.
A MONTH IN THE FIELD is the first book of his that is translated into Castilian.