Wife: Nona Sonstenby (m. 1952, div. 1968)
Wife: Susan Heimann (m. 1974, until his death)

Author of books:
How Green Was My Valley (1939, novel)
None But the Lonely Heart (1943, novel)
A Few Flowers for Shiner (1950, novel)
A Flame for Doubting Thomas (1953, novel)
Up, Into the Singing Mountain (1960, novel)
And I Shall Sleep... Down Where the Moon Is Small (1966, novel)
Green, Green My Valley Now (1975, novel)
A Night of Bright Stars (1979, novel)

Wrote plays:
Poison Pen (1938)
Noose (1947)