Cecil Day-Lewis in Podcasts
personEnglish novelist and poet, known for his detective fiction and as a poet laureate, wrote under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake.
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Day-Lewis reportedly caused some excitement when he admitted to the court that yes, he was also Nicholas Blake, the writer of detective stories.
Day-Lewis was a witness at the famous Chatterley trial in London in 1960, where a variety of famous writers were called upon to defend the book with the result that the publishers Penguin were able to publish the unexpurgated edition.
Later, Day-Lewis would name a character Charles Blair Chatterley in End of Chapter in 1957 and also use the name of the Chatterley home, Ragby, in his Christmas story The Sad Variety in 1964, which is about a Professor Alfred Ragby whose daughter is kidnapped.