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Oscar Sparrow was born in Winchester UK in 1949, apparently thanks to the American Marshal Aid programme to re-build Europe after the war. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles. The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to eleven and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver and poet. He read Wordsworth and car maintenance manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oscar became a member of the Socialist Workers Party and was a shop steward for the GMB trades union.
At the age of 25 he heard the music of Edith Piaf and learned to sing all her songs. A few years later he realised she was French and that he was an ugly swan not a beautiful duckling. The shock propelled him to London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf and learning turistico Italiano.
Eventually The Authorities fell for his transparently fraudulent sophistication and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. He spent evenings in low venues performing his poetry, always careful to leave ahead of any applause, flying tomatoes or furniture.
After twenty years of public service, Oscar returned to the open road as a trucker, taxi and bus driver.
Throughout all this time he was a would be poet, short story writer and novelist. Always scribbling he sent waves of short stories to magazines and published poems via the National Poetry Foundation magazines. He wore out a typewriter and the patience of more or less all major publishers with his novels. Oscar has always been very conscious that success too early in a literary career can spoil a writer and has avoided any such risk.
Oscar has wonderful children whom he will not mention in order to save embarrassment. They know who they are. Oscar has lived a fortunate and blessed life on the cusp of a breakthrough.
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