He gave up his job and started writing full time, producing thirteen more novels in the next six years under three different names. Finchley Discovers his England, was accepted by Hodder and Stoughton and became a runaway best seller. Within three years he had started selling short stories to boys’ magazines and in 1934, his first novel. Henderson, but the family could not afford it and instead Victor went to work as a clerk in the education office at age 16. Here he was encouraged to stay on at school and go to university by a classical scholar, Dr. In the mid 1920s they moved to Oxford where his father had found work, and Victor attended the Oxford Central School. After the war the family returned to Plymouth. During World War I his father served as an ambulance driver in France and Flanders, while he with his two sisters went to live in the village of Calstock ten miles north of Plymouth, where his uncle Cecil Goold worked for the railways and later became station master. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.Ĭanning was born in Plymouth, Devon, the eldest child of a coach builder, Fred Canning, and his wife May, née Goold. Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986.
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