Caradoc Evans (David Evans 1878-1945), short stories writer and novelist, was born in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire. After the early death of his father, an auctioneer, his mother and her five children moved to Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire. In 1897 he was apprenticed to a draper in Carmarthen. Later he worked as a shop assistant in Barry, Cardiff and London. While in London he found employment as a journalist in 1906. He became editor of the magazine Ideas in 1915. His first collection of short stories, My People (1915), brought him instant notoriety. Two further volumes followed, Capel Sion (1916) and My Neighbours (1919). Among Caradoc Evans' novels were Nothing to Pay, a study of hypocrisy and greed against a squalid background of the 'rag trade' of his days as a shop assistant, and Morgan Bible. Caradoc Evans is regarded by many as one of the most remarkable Welshmen of his time. His literary reputation rests on the best of his short stories, his legend on the devious assaults made on so many cherished aspects of 'the Welsh way of life', from Nonconformity and the Eisteddfod to the integrity of the common people.