Paul Winterton

Paul Winterton (1908–2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist. Throughout his career, he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers. Winterton was born in Leicester on 12 February 1908. He was the son of George Ernest Winterton (1873 - May 15, 1942) who was the eighth Member of Parliament for Loughborough, serving between 1929 and 1931. He was educated at various schools before reading Economics at the London School of Economics, graduating (BSc) in 1928. The following winter he travelled to Soviet Russia and back, demonstrating a fascination for the country that was to bear fruit only a decade later. He joined the staff of The Economist at the age of 21. He stayed for three years before moving on to the News...