Cecil Day-Lewis
Novelist, Author
1904 – 1972
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Who was Cecil Day-Lewis?
Cecil Day-Lewis, CBE was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and documentary filmmaker and television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis.
In his autobiography The Buried Day, he wrote "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname – a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results . . . ."
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1904
Ballintubber - Also known as
- C. Day Lewis
- Cecil Day Lewis
- C.Day Lewis
- Nicholas Blake
- Day Lewis
- C. Day-Lewis
- Cecil Day-Lewis, CBE
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jill Balcon
(1951/04/27 - 1972/05/22) - Constance Mary King
(1928 - 1951)
- Jill Balcon
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Wadham College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Sherborne School
- Lived in
- County Laois
- Died
- May 22, 1972
Hadley Wood - Resting place
- Stinsford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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