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George Blake (novelist)
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'''George Blake''' (1893–1961) was a Scottish journalist, literary editor and novelist. His ''The Shipbuilders'' (1935) and ''Major Operation'' (1936) are considered significant and influential efforts to write about the Scottish industrial working class.<ref name="ODNB"></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Life==
He was born in [[Greenock]], the son of Matthew Blake, machinery manufacturer, and his wife Ursula Scott McCulloch. He was educated at [[Greenock Academy]] and [[Glasgow University]]. During [[World War I]] he served in the [[British Army]] and was wounded during the [[Gallipoli Campaign]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
After the war Blake worked at the ''[[Glasgow Evening News]]'', and then moved to London where he stayed from 1924 to 1932.<ref name="ODNB"/> There he was editor of ''[[John O'London's Weekly]]'' and the ''[[Strand Magazine]]''.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He became in 1930 a director of [[Faber and Faber]], playing a role in their Porpoise Press subsidiary in Edinburgh, founded by Roderick Watson Kerr and George Malcolm Thomson.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Returning to Scotland, Blake lived at The Glenan, [[Helensburgh]] and elsewhere. He was a radio broadcaster and literary journalist; and was visited by [[T. S. Eliot]]. He died in Glasgow's [[Southern General Hospital]] on 29 August 1961, survived by his wife Eliza Malcolm Lawson (Ellie), whom he had married in 1923.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:1961 deaths]]
[[Category:Scottish novelists]]
[[Category:Scottish journalists]]
[[Category:Scottish magazine editors]]
[[Category:People from Greenock]]
==Life==
He was born in [[Greenock]], the son of Matthew Blake, machinery manufacturer, and his wife Ursula Scott McCulloch. He was educated at [[Greenock Academy]] and [[Glasgow University]]. During [[World War I]] he served in the [[British Army]] and was wounded during the [[Gallipoli Campaign]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
After the war Blake worked at the ''[[Glasgow Evening News]]'', and then moved to London where he stayed from 1924 to 1932.<ref name="ODNB"/> There he was editor of ''[[John O'London's Weekly]]'' and the ''[[Strand Magazine]]''.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He became in 1930 a director of [[Faber and Faber]], playing a role in their Porpoise Press subsidiary in Edinburgh, founded by Roderick Watson Kerr and George Malcolm Thomson.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Returning to Scotland, Blake lived at The Glenan, [[Helensburgh]] and elsewhere. He was a radio broadcaster and literary journalist; and was visited by [[T. S. Eliot]]. He died in Glasgow's [[Southern General Hospital]] on 29 August 1961, survived by his wife Eliza Malcolm Lawson (Ellie), whom he had married in 1923.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:1961 deaths]]
[[Category:Scottish novelists]]
[[Category:Scottish journalists]]
[[Category:Scottish magazine editors]]
[[Category:People from Greenock]]
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