Leslie Barringer
Leslie Barringer (1895-1968) was an English editor and fantasy author. Obscure in his own lifetime, his is now best known for the Neustrian Cycle, three fantasy novels set in an alternate medieval Europe in in which Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom) takes the place of France. In addition to his Neustrian fantasies he also wrote three historical novels.
Barringer was a Quaker, born in England. He served in an ambulance unit during World War I. After the war he worked as an editor for an English publisher. Most of his written works were originally published in the 1920s and 1930s. Barringer and his wife had four daughters.
After his death his fantasies were rediscovered and critically praised by later fantasy authors such as L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, which led to revived interest in them and a number of reprints in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as volumes 7, 9 and 13 of the [[Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library]] in 1976-77.
To date there has been no comparable revival of Barringer's other works.
Bibliography
Neustrian cycle
- Gerfalcon (1927)
- Joris of the Rock (1928)
- Shy Leopardess (1948)
Historical novels
- Kay the Left-Handed (1935)
- Know Ye Not Agincourt? (1936)
- The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York (1953)