Geraint's Fuller Biography and Burial Place

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 Born 1903 Died: 1941 Place of Birth: Llanwchairn, Newtown.  his parents were

Richard and Mary Jane Goodwin, 

During his relatively short life Geraint Goodwin made his name as a novelist and short story writer of the first rank. He fought bravely against illness whilst choosing to live in difficult circumstances to concentrate on his craft.
 Geraint  loved Montgomeryshire with a passion. His writing shows porttrays that. Having been born Newtown in 1903 he was very aware of his birthplace's proximity to England. His father died when he was eight-years-old and his mother then married a local shopkeeper.
 After leaving Tywyn County school in Newtown, he became an apprentice on The Montgomeryshire Express, before moving to London's Fleet Street to work on The Daily Sketch.   
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 In 1930 he found that he was sufferinng from TB and he had to spend months in a sanatorium. ` This experience provided the impetus for his first novel, 'Call Back Yesterday' (1935)  After its publication, he secured a contract to write another two novels and he gave up his work as a journalist to concentrate on his creative writing full-time.  
In 1932  he married his wife Rhoda Margaret, daughter of Harold Storey and  moved with his wife and daughter from London to Lower Farm, Dagnell in Buckinghamshire where he started to write about rural life.  His first book at Lower Farm was 'The Heyday in the BIood' (1936), which was to become his most famous work and was translated into Welsh by Mair Closs Roberts in 1976. His next novel, 'Watch for the Morning' was published in 1938  and a series of short stories entitled   'White Farm' were written in the same year.
 Geraint also moved  back to Upper Corris near Machynlleth to live in a cottage where his son was born.It was there that he wrote his final novel 'Come Michaelmas'. 

Geraint also published a series of poems entitled 'A first Sheath'

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