Peter Stead (writer)

Peter Stead FLSW (born 1943) is a Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian.^[1]

Stead was born in 1943 in Barry, Wales, and attended grammar schools at Barry and Gowerton. A graduate of Swansea University, he was subsequently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Wellesley College, and at the University of North Carolina. He is Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Literary Prize,^[2] and along with the late Patrick Hannan, Stead has been a member of the Welsh team in the radio series Round Britain Quiz for several years. In 2013, Stead was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[3]

Works

• Coleg Harlech (1976)
• Ivor Allchurch (Christopher Davies, 1998)
• Film and the Working Class (1989)
• Richard Burton: So Much, So Little (1991)
• Dennis Potter (1995)
• Acting Wales: Stars of Stage and Screen (2002)^[4]