John Pick

He was a Quaker and a conscientious objector during the Second World War, serving in the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then as a coalminer.

[3] Pick received his education at Sidcot School, a Quaker institution in Somerset.

He attended Cambridge University for a year but left at the outbreak of Second World War to join the Friends' Ambulance Unit.

[4][5][6] Pick was the author of the novels Out of the Pit, The Lonely Aren't Alone, Under the Crust and A Land Fit for Eros, the last co-authored with John Atkins.

He also wrote a number of short stories, articles, poetry, and nonfiction works.