"Nicholas Blake (judge) Sir Nicholas John Gorrod Blake (born 21 June 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Blake, is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at Cranleigh School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1974 and became a bencher there in 2002. He was made a QC in 1994, specialising in immigration, asylum and free movement and human rights law. He was a founding member of Matrix Chambers and first chair of its management committee. He was appointed as a special advocate and as a"
"Ladbroke Black Ladbroke Lionel Day Black (21 June 1877 – 27 July 1940) was an English journalist and author who wrote mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories, often under pseudonyms such as Lionel Day, Lewis Jackson and Paul Urquhart. Black was born in Burley-in-Wharfedale and was educated in Ireland and at Cambridge. His father Charles Ingham Black was the curate of Burley, and his grandfather the Irish pirate/smuggler John Black (""Black Jack""), who built Elsinore Lodge at Rosses Point, Sligo. Black was appointed assistant editor of ""The Phoenix"" 1897–99 before taking up a similar position with ""The Morning Herald"" in"
"Philosophy and Symbols"" from 1924 was later followed by ""A Blake Dictionary"" (1965), the work for which he is perhaps best known. Their encyclopedic scope expanded Blake studies into the examination of the mystical and occult elements of Blake's work. His later academic career was at Brown University, where he had positions from 1927. His other writings include a biography of Amy Lowell, and the long poem ""The Moulton Tragedy, a heroic poem with lyrics"" (1971). He also published poetry under the pseudonym Samuel Nomad. S. Foster Damon Samuel Foster Damon (February 12, 1893 – December 25, 1971) was an"
"1996. Florence Blake Florence Guinness Blake (November 30, 1907 - September 12, 1983) was an American nurse, professor and author who made significant contributions to pediatric nursing and to family-centered nursing care. Blake wrote her classic text, ""The Child, His Parents and the Nurse"", in 1954. She co-authored two other pediatric nursing textbooks, ""Essentials of Pediatric Nursing"" and ""Nursing Care of Children"". She was on the nursing faculty at several American universities. She was posthumously honored with induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. Florence Blake was born on November 30, 1907. She was the daughter of musician"
"Nathaniel Crouch Nathaniel Crouch (born c. 1632) was an English printer and bookseller, and under the pseudonym Richard Burton (or R.B.) wrote historical books as well. As a historian, he is considered a hack, borrowing material from other books and rewriting them under his pseudonym, then publishing and marketing them under the Crouch imprint. Though he was the type of writer/publisher denounced in the following century by writers such as Samuel Butler (""Prose Observations"") and Alexander Pope (""The Dunciad""), more recent assessments of his life and career see him as an important figure in the development of historiography, especially in"
"James Carlos Blake James Carlos Blake (born May 26, 1947) is an American writer of novels, novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. He has been called “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” as well as “one of the most original writers in America today and … certainly one of the bravest.” He is a recipient of the University of South Florida's Distinguished Humanities Alumnus Award and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Blake has written about his boyhood in a memoir essay entitled"
"Robert Blake, Baron Blake Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake, (23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003), was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and for ""The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill"", which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures. Robert Blake was born on 23 December 1916 in Brundall, Norwich, the elder son of William Joseph Blake, a schoolmaster, and of Norah Lindley Blake, (""née"" Daynes), the daughter of a leading Norwich solicitor. He was said to be related to Admiral Robert Blake, of the Parliamentary navy. Blake"
"Michael Blake (author) Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas, before moving to Southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at a film school, in Berkeley, California. He also attended Eastern"
"Blake, Detective"" published by Snowbooks. In 2013, Obverse Books licensed the character for a proposed series of novellas, as part of a sixth series of the Sexton Blake Library, commencing with ""The Silent Thunder Caper"" by Mark Hodder. The imprint had previously published a collection of short stories featuring Blake villain Zenith the Albino. As the years passed, Blake's character experienced various permutations. He was originally created to be similar to earlier 19th-century detectives, but during the late 1890s, Blake's authors consciously modeled him on Sherlock Holmes. It was not until 1919 that Blake was given a more distinctive personality."
"Sexton Blake Sexton Blake is a fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications (in many languages) from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors. Blake was also the hero of numerous silent and sound movies, radio serials, and a 1960s ITV television series. The first Sexton Blake story was ""The Missing Millionaire"". Written by Harry Blyth (using the pseudonym Hal Meredeth), it was published in the story paper"
"from poetry by writing a detective novel, ""A Question of Proof"" under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator and gentleman detective who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has the same access to, and good relations with, official crime investigation bodies as those enjoyed by other fictional sleuths such as Ellery Queen, Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey. He published nineteen more crime novels. (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modelled on W. H. Auden, but Day-Lewis developed the character as a far less extravagant and more serious"
"Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, 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 Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef. Day-Lewis was born in 1904 in Ballintubbert, Athy/Stradbally border, Queen's County (now known as County Laois), Ireland. He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis (died 29 July 1937), Church of Ireland"
"John Lauris Blake John Lauris Blake (December 21, 1788 – July 6, 1857) was an American clergyman and bestselling author. He is best known as the author of the ""General Biographical Dictionary"". He was born on 21 December 1788 in Northwood, New Hampshire. During his adolescence he practiced cabinet making and at the same time prepared himself for college. He graduated from Brown University in 1812, and was licensed as a Congregational minister in 1813. Blake was the founder of the ""Ladies' Magazine"", headmaster of the Cornhill School for Young Ladies, and served on the committee of Boston public schools."
"Florence Blake Florence Guinness Blake (November 30, 1907 - September 12, 1983) was an American nurse, professor and author who made significant contributions to pediatric nursing and to family-centered nursing care. Blake wrote her classic text, ""The Child, His Parents and the Nurse"", in 1954. She co-authored two other pediatric nursing textbooks, ""Essentials of Pediatric Nursing"" and ""Nursing Care of Children"". She was on the nursing faculty at several American universities. She was posthumously honored with induction into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. Florence Blake was born on November 30, 1907. She was the daughter of musician Thelma"
"plume"". Thus, he produced ""Surprising Miracles of Nature and Art"", and many other treatises on very plain paper, and sold [them] at an exceedingly reasonable rate. His enterprise and diligence were rewarded by large sales and considerable wealth."" Nathaniel Crouch Nathaniel Crouch (born c. 1632) was an English printer and bookseller, and under the pseudonym Richard Burton (or R.B.) wrote historical books as well. As a historian, he is considered a hack, borrowing material from other books and rewriting them under his pseudonym, then publishing and marketing them under the Crouch imprint. Though he was the type of writer/publisher denounced"
"the IPA Award for Independent Publisher of the Year. John Blake (journalist) John Blake (born 6 November 1948) is a British publisher and journalist. The son of a soldier (who fought in both world wars) and a nurse, Blake left Westminster Grammar School at the age of 17 and gained employment at the ""Hackney Gazette"". Further jobs at a evening newspaper in Luton and a news agency followed. Beginning as a pop columnist for the London ""Evening News"" in the early 1970s, his work developed into a column titled ""Ad Lib"", a gossip column and lifestyle guide. It survived the"
"Ken Blake (for a series of tie-ins with the 1970s television programme ""The Professionals""), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike, and Andrew Quiller. He also ghost-wrote books for Barry Sadler. In some cases, Bulmer used not only a different name but also included in the books a detailed imaginary biography giving specific personal details substantially different from the true ones. For example, the Viking series published under the name ""Neil Langholm"" included biographical details intended to create the impression that the series – as appropriate to its subject – was written by a Dane: Consists of eleven cycles (the"
"A. G. E. Blake Anthony George Edward Blake, usually known as A.G.E. Blake or Anthony Blake (born 1939), is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the philosophy of thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of the DuVersity and its Director of Studies. Anthony Blake was born in the United Kingdom in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an honours degree in physics at Bristol University, followed by history"
"William Blake. He also produced biographies and bibliographies of English writers such as Sir Thomas Browne, John Evelyn, Siegfried Sassoon, John Donne and Jane Austen. He was also a pioneer in the history of science, with studies of John Ray, William Harvey and Robert Hooke. His biography ""The Life of William Harvey"" was awarded the 1966 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Keynes also collected books, with a personal library with around four thousand works. His autobiography ""The Gates of Memory"" was published in 1981, and he died the following year, aged 95. ""The Gates of Memory"" includes anecdotes of Keynes'"
"six children and lives in the Scottish Borders. A. G. E. Blake Anthony George Edward Blake, usually known as A.G.E. Blake or Anthony Blake (born 1939), is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the philosophy of thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of the DuVersity and its Director of Studies. Anthony Blake was born in the United Kingdom in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an honours degree"
"Anne Weale Jay Blakeney (born 20 June 1929 in England – d. 24 October 2007) was a British newspaper reporter, well known as romance writer under the pseudonyms Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002. She died on 24 October 2007; at the time of her death she was writing her autobiography, ""88 Heroes…1 Mr Right"". Anne Weale was a journalist and writer who lived mainly in Europe. She was best known for her romance novels of the 1980s. She published her first romance novel as Anne Weale in"
"Attorney General v Blake George Blake was a former member of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1944 to 1961. For his employment contract, he had signed an Official Secrets Act 1911 declaration to disclose no information about his work. It applied after his employment ceased. In 1951, he became a Soviet agent, thus, being a double agent. He was discovered in 1961 and the British government imprisoned him in Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison). He escaped in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union. He wrote a book about it and his secret services work called ""No Other Choice"". He"
"Quentin Blake Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer. He may be known best for illustrating books written by Roald Dahl. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators. Blake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent, and was evacuated to the West Country during World War"
"may use different pen names for each, sometimes with no attempt to conceal a true identity. Romance writer Nora Roberts writes erotic thrillers under the pen name J. D. Robb (such books are titled ""Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb""); Scots writer Iain Banks wrote mainstream or literary fiction under his own name and published science fiction under Iain M. Banks; Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the aliases Mark Twain and Sieur Louis de Conte for different works. Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction (such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis"
"H. Emerson Blake H. Emerson Blake (also credited as Emerson Blake, or Chip Blake) is an ecologist, the editor-in-chief at Orion Magazine, executive director of the Orion Society, former editor-in-chief at Milkweed Editions, and editor of many books. Blake is originally from Philadelphia. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and finished his graduate work at Antioch University New England. While at Antioch, he helped found Whole Terrain, an environmentally-themed literary journal, and edited the first volume, Environmental Identity and Professional Choices (1992). Though he studied ecology, Blake has been ensconced in the world of"
"Hannes Bok Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard (July 2, 1914 – April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta Publishers, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous"
"mentioned in despatches. He worked for MI6 from 1944 to 1946, where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. In 1947 he became a student (fellow) and tutor in Politics at Christ Church, Oxford, replacing Lord Pakenham, who had joined Attlee's government. His first work was an edition of the papers of Douglas Haig, which did much to restore Haig's reputation. It was followed by a biography of Andrew Bonar Law, written at the invitation of Lord Beaverbrook, Law's executor. Blake's most famous work is his 1966 ""Disraeli"", a biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, which has been"
"Français in London. Quentin Blake Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer. He may be known best for illustrating books written by Roald Dahl. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators. Blake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent, and was evacuated to the West Country"
"Life of William Blake The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” With selections from his poems and other writings is a two-volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in 1863. The first volume is a biography and the second a compilation of Blake's poetry, prose, artwork and illustrated manuscript. The book was largely written by Alexander Gilchrist, who had spent many years compiling the material and interviewing Blake's surviving friends. However, Gilchrist had left it incomplete at his sudden death from scarlet fever in 1861. The work was published two years later, having been completed"
"Bruce Alexander Cook Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective. Cook was born in 1932 in Chicago. His family moved often as a child, his father being a train dispatcher with frequent new assignments. He earned a degree in literature from Loyola University (Chicago). His first wife was Catherine Coghlan, with whom he had three children, Catherine (Katy), Bob, and Ceci. He married concert violinist Judith Aller in 1994. He served"
"John Blake (journalist) John Blake (born 6 November 1948) is a British publisher and journalist. The son of a soldier (who fought in both world wars) and a nurse, Blake left Westminster Grammar School at the age of 17 and gained employment at the ""Hackney Gazette"". Further jobs at a evening newspaper in Luton and a news agency followed. Beginning as a pop columnist for the London ""Evening News"" in the early 1970s, his work developed into a column titled ""Ad Lib"", a gossip column and lifestyle guide. It survived the merger of the ""Evening News"" with the ""Evening Standard""."
"of influences have been claimed for the book. The psychedelic proselytiser Timothy Leary was given the book by a colleague soon after returning from Mexico where he had first taken psilocybin mushrooms in the summer of 1960. He found that ""The Doors of Perception"" corroborated what he had experienced 'and more too'. Leary soon set up a meeting with Huxley and the two became friendly. The book can also be seen as a part of the history of entheogenic model of understanding these drugs, that sees them within a spiritual context. William Blake (Born in London, 28 November 1757 –"
"James Hadley Chase James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond, and Ambrose Grant. He was one of the best known thriller writers of all time. The canon of Chase, comprising 90 titles, earned him a reputation as the king of thriller writers in Europe. He was also one of the internationally best-selling authors, and, so far, 50 of his books have been made into films."