Leslie Barringer

Leslie Barringer was a Quaker born in Yorkshire, England. He worked as a civil servant and as an editor for Scottish publishers Thomas Nelson & Sons, the Radio Times for the BBC, and the Amalgamated Press in the encyclopedia department. Barringer started writing in the 1920s with Gerfalcon the first book in the Neustrian Cycle, a trilogy set during the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France. Barringer died in 1968.