 After graduating from RADA , Kneale worked for a short time as a professional actor performing in small rôles at the Stratford Memorial Theatre in Stratford @-@ upon @-@ Avon . He continued to write in his spare time and in 1949 a collection of his work , entitled Tomato Cain and Other Stories , was published . The book sufficiently impressed the writer Elizabeth Bowen that she wrote a foreword for it , and in 1950 the collection won the Somerset Maugham Award . ( His son , Matthew Kneale , would later win the same award in 1988 for his novel Whore Banquets . ) 
