Edward Blishen (1920–1996)
Author of Science Fiction Stories
About the Author
Edward Blishen was born on April 29, 1920. He was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best for the first of two children's novels based on Greek mythology, written with Leon Garfield, and illustrated by Charles Keeping. For The God Beneath the Sea, Blishen and Garfield won the 1970 show more Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book in England. Blishen was born in Hertfordshire, England. He died on December 13, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Junior Pears Cyclopaedia 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1920-04-12
- Date of death
- 1996-12-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Whetstone, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Whetstone, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Education
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, England, UK
- Occupations
- teacher
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broadcaster - Short biography
- Won a scholarship to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet. His lifelong love of books was encouraged there by Spencer Vaughan-Thomas, an outstanding English teacher. Left school at 17 and worked on local newspaper in Muswell Hill.
A conscientious objector in WWII, worked on a farm.
In 1949 attended London emergency teacher training college. Was a teacher until 1959.
Broadcaster: a weekly BBC programme for young African writers; then BBC Magazine of the Arts Overseas.
part-time teaching at York University between 1963 and 1965 in the education department. Blishen devised a course built around different literary descriptions of teaching found in texts from David Copperfield to The Rainbow.
A constant and acute reviewer and editor of children's literature,
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Mind How You Go by Edward Blishen
The last of Blishen's funny, diffident observations on life, published posthumously. There are humorous intimations of demise as various bits of him don't work as well as they did, but maybe even he didn't expect to go so soon after he'd completed the book. He was 76, and had been quietly entertaining those of us who loved his gentle style for well over forty years, so it's a melancholy but happy read.
More gentle, self-deprecating yet very funny memoirs from Blishen. This time, his life as an educational pundit, something he finds hard to believe. Of particular interest are the scraps of letters he quotes, written by his great great uncle from the front line of the Crimean War.
Here Edward Blishen turns his loving and humorous attention to a celebration of his mother's life. Wry and touching, and as always, very funny.
More gentle deprecating yet laugh-out-loud humour from Blishen. He has a genius for bringing out the ridiculous yet poignant aspects of any human situation, in this case working on the land as a conscientious objector during the war. "Cack-handed" means literally left-handed, but in this case probably means clumsy and awkward.
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