Scott, A.

With a short break in the 1980's Wilf Bloor, using the pen name "A. Scott," produced a 'Jabez' story in North Staffordshire dialect for the Sentinel - the local evening newspaper of North Staffordshire - every week from 1968 until his death in 1993. During that time he also wrote a series of Bible stories, retold in 'dialect'. Three collections of his stories were published between 1972 and 1978, and each sold several thousand copies. Over the years he made many personal appearances at local venues, reading his stories and explaining about the local dialect. One of these was professionally rec...