Nicholas Blake (1) (1904–1972)
Auteur de The Beast Must Die
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Nicholas Blake (1) a été combiné avec C. Day Lewis.
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Det dybe så 1 exemplaire
Drepende frykt 1 exemplaire
The Assassin's Club [short story] 1 exemplaire
La maraña 1 exemplaire
Aucun titre 1 exemplaire
Das Geheimnis von Dower House 1 exemplaire
Roligt hav - voldsom død 1 exemplaire
Rødt lys for Charles Hammer 1 exemplaire
Quando l'amore uccide 1 exemplaire
The Long Shot [Short story] 1 exemplaire
A Slice of Bad Luck 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Day Lewis, Cecil
- Date de naissance
- 1904
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- United Kingdom
- Courte biographie
- Nicholas Blake was the pen name of Cecil Day-Lewis, or C. Day Lewis, born in Ballintubbert, County Laois, Ireland, to Anglo-Irish parents. His father Frank Day-Lewis was a clergyman of the Church of Ireland. After 1906, following the death of his mother Kathleen when he was two years old, he was brought up in England by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives back in County Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and then read classics (nicknamed "Greats") at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became a member of the circle of writers around W.H. Auden. While still a student, he published his first collection of poems. After graduating in 1927, he worked as a schoolteacher and to supplement his income, he wrote his first detective novel A Question of Proof, published in 1935 under the name Nicholas Blake. As Blake, he wrote 19 more crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways. Nicholas Blake became one of the UK's most popular detective novelists, and these books have remained in print. During World War II, he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in his novel Minute for Murder (1947). After the war, he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director before becoming a professor of Poetry at Cambridge and Oxford. He was appointed poet laureate of England in 1968.
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- Œuvres
- 38
- Aussi par
- 19
- Membres
- 3,079
- Popularité
- #8,293
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 102
- ISBN
- 246
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 3
Some wonderfully colourful characters set in a golden era of crime detection.
A great different take on a crime procedurals.