Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raffaella Barker (born 1964) is an English author. She lives in Norfolk, England with her family. She is the daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker. George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 27 October 1991) was an English poet and author. Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of Kit Barker [painter] George Barker was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school and at Regent Street Polytechnic. Having left school at an early age he pursued several odd jobs before settling on a career in writing. Early volumes of note by Barker include Thirty Preliminary Poems (1933), Poems (1935) and Calamiterror (1937), which was inspired by the Spanish Civil War.