Barstow, Stan b. June 28, 1928 d. August 1, 2011 Author, Screenwriter. Best remembered for his novel "A Kind of Loving" (1960), which was made into a 1962 motion picture adaptation. The son of a coal miner, he dropped out of grammar school at age sixteen to work as a draftsman with a local engineering company. After marrying and beginning his family, he initiated his writing career with the penning of "A Kind of Loving" in 1960 and with found success from a storyline which depicted the working class, an unhappy marriage and frankness about...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.) Margam Crematorium, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, Wales