Cecil Day-Lewis Writer

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis), CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was a British 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 (1960), 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 . . . .".

Personal facts

Cecil Day-Lewis
Alias (AKA)Day Lewis C
PseudonymNicholas Blake
Birth dateApril 27, 1904
Birth place
Ireland , Ballintubber , County Laois
Nationality
United Kingdom
Date of deathMay 22, 1972
Place of death
England , Hertfordshire , Hadley Wood
Spouse
Children
Tamasin Day-Lewis

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