Question

Please give me the biography of JOHN GRIGGS the writer of the story "THE NIGHT WE WON THE BUICK"

Answer 1

John Edward Poynder Grigg, popularly known as John Grigg was born on 15 April 1924. He held the position of the 2nd Baron Altrincham that he gave up when the title achieved the Royal Assent.

John Grigg began his career as a journalist with Times and was a member of the wartime government formed by Winston Churchill. He joined the British Army as a second lieutenant and was part of the army during the Second World War. After quitting from the army, he graduated in Modern History from New College, Oxford. Although he contested for the General Election in 1951 and 1955, he lost both times. He married Marian Patricia Campbell who worked for his father’s magazine National and English Review. The couple adopted two children Alexander and Edward.

Answer 2

John Edward Poynder Grigg (15 April 1924 – 31 December 2001) was a British essayist, history specialist and lawmaker. He was the second Baron Altrincham from 1955 until the point when he renounced that title under the Peerage Acton the day it got the Royal Assent in 1963. 
John Grigg was the child of Edward Grigg, a Times columnist related with the settler hover of Joseph Chamberlain, Conservative MP, Governor of Kenya, and individual from Winston Churchill's wartime government, who was made first Baron Altrincham in 1945, and his better half Joan Dickson-Poynder, the little girl of Lord Islington.