Roy Fuller was born on Feb 11, 1912 in Failsworth, Lancashire, England. Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. Educated privately in Lancashire, Fuller became a solicitor in 1934 and served in the Royal Navy (1941–45) during World War II. 

His first book, Poems (1939), was influenced by social causes, an interest in Marxism, and the work of W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Other collections draw on his war experiences, including The Middle of a War (1942) and A Lost Season(1944). He wrote a trio of crime novels collected in Crime Omnibus (1988). Among his other novels are The Second Curtain (1953), Image of a Society (1956), The Ruined Boys (1959), My Child, My Sister (1965), and The Carnal Island (1970). His autobiographical writings include Souvenirs (1980), Vamp Till Ready: Further Memoirs (1982), and Home and Dry: Memoirs III (1984). His children’s verse is collected in The World Through the Window: Collected Poems for Children (1989). Fuller received the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 1970 and the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 1980. He died 27 September 1991.