About Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. Day-Lewis's first collection of poems, Beechen Vigil and other Poems, appeared in 1925. His first two, with Constance Mary King, were Sean Day-Lewis (3 August 1931 – 9 June 2022), a television critic and writer, and Nicholas Day-Lewis (born 1934), an engineer. He created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator and gentleman detective who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has access to official crime investigations.
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