David Arthur Watmough was born August 17, 1926 in Leyton, Essex, near London, England. For half a century Watmough was engaged in writing not only as an author and activist, but additionally as a correspondent with many literary figures, notably W. H. Auden, Margaret Laurence, Timothy Findley, Maria Tippett, and Jane Rule, as well as visual artists John Koerner and Gordon Smith, among others.
From the description of David Watmough fonds. 1941-1997. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606469168