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Nicholas Blake
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Emerging from an Anglo-Irish family, he attended Sherborne School before studying at Wadham College, Oxford, where he entered the literary circle around W. H. Auden and helped edit Oxford Poetry in 1927. His early output included the 1925 collection Beechen Vigil and other Poems, and he later gained a popular reputation writing detective novels under the name Nicholas Blake, beginning with A Quest…
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