About Blake Morrison
Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If (1997). Morrison's first book was The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (Oxford University Press, 1980). In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by Plymouth University.
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