Marion Eames

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Marion Eames (1921 - April 3, 2007 ) was a Welsh novelist.

Marion was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire of Welsh parents, but was brought up at Dolgellau from the age of 4, where she attended Dr Williams's School. A talented musician (she played the harp and piano), she graduated from Guildhall College, London.

Marion worked as a librarian in Dolgellau then at Aberystwyth University before becoming a radio producer with the BBC in Cardiff. She was an early scriptwriter for the long running Welsh soap "Pobol Y Cwm" and was also for a time a regional organizer for Plaid Cymru.

Her best-known work is Y Stafell Ddirgel (also translated in to English as (The Secret Room), published in 1969. This was later made into a BBC television drama series. A follow on novel was "Rhiandir Mwyn", the "Fair Wilderness". Her autobiography was published in 1995.