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Blake Morrison Literary Archive

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Morrison

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Blake Morrison Literary Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 20c Morrison

Creator(s): Morrison, Blake (1950-)()

Date(s): c1950 - 2023

Language: English

Size and medium: c100 boxes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8557

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Literary Archive of Blake Morrison covering books and novels, poetry, journalism (print and broadcast) and plays and libretti. Also includes a substantial series of correspondence.

Biography or history

(Philip) Blake Morrison, the poet, critic, journalist, writer of non-fiction, and novelist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was born on 8 October 1950 near Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University and University College, London. Since then he has worked as a literary editor in London for several different newspapers. For fuller details of his life and achievements see Who's who.

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