Given the question: Facts: - notableworks: '' applegarth '' round about the crooked steeple '' , '' - death date: 09 august 1940 - spouse: doris -rrb- aldridge -lrb- 1938 -- 1940 ; his death - birth date: 10 august 1895 - alma mater: ruskin college - name: simon evans - ethnicity: welsh - nationality: british - death place: birmingham , england , uk - birth place: tynyfedu , wales , uk - occupation: writer , radio broadcaster , postman Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of simon evans -lrb- writer -rrb- .
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simon evans -lrb- 10 august 1895 -- 9 august 1940 -rrb- , a postman with the gpo -lrb- now royal mail -rrb- for most of his short life , also developed a reputation in the 1930s as a writer and broadcaster on country life , particularly in and around rural south shropshire .he had five books published by heath cranton ltd within a seven-year span -lrb- 1931 -- 38 -rrb- before his death in 1940 .in recent years a collection of his writings has been published , and other memorials created , including plaques in cleobury mortimer , where he lived for 14 years , and a 28-km walk based on his postal round stretching from cleobury mortimer deep into the south shropshire countryside .