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He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the U.K. government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British Home Guard . [1]
Nicholas Blake is the pseudonym of poet Cecil Day-Lewis C. Day Lewis, who was born in Ireland in 1904. He was the son of the Reverend Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and his wife Kathleen (nee Squires).
Nicholas Blake fue el seduónimo utilizado por el poeta angloirlandés Cecil Day-Lewis -padre del actor Daniel Day-Lewis - para firmar sus novelas de tipo negro y criminal. Nacido en Irlanda pero criado en Londres, Day-Lewis enseñó poesía en Oxford mientras publicaba, bajo el nombre de Nicholas Blake, novelas como La bestia debe morir.
Nicholas Blake has 80 books on Goodreads with 22259 ratings. Nicholas Blake’s most popular book is The Beast Must Die (Nigel Strangeways, #4).
Cecil Day-Lewis, CBE (o Day Lewis) (27 de abril de 1904 - 22 de mayo de 1972), poeta británico (nacido en Irlanda) y, bajo el seudónimo de Nicholas Blake, autor de novelas policíacas. Descendiente, por línea materna, de Oliver Goldsmith, 1 y padre del conocido actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
13 de nov. de 2020 · As Nicholas Blake, he is best known for the amateur investigator Nigel Strangeways, who features in sixteen of the twenty detective novels Day-Lewis wrote under this pseudonym.
18 de ene. de 2019 · He is often credited as one of the writers responsible for turning the detective story into the detective novel. The novelist Elizabeth Bowen described his books as “something quite by themselves in English detective fiction.”
