Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist. He born and raised in Stepney Green in the East End of London, the son of Dutch-Jewish immigrants, the father having come from Amsterdam around 1902. In 1956 Kops married Erica Eve Gordon; with whom he had four children. He was an extremely prolific writer. He wrote many plays for television, stage and radio; nine novels; seven volumes of poetry and two autobiographies. In 2009, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed a Civil List pension on him.