Blake Morrison Literary Archive
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Blake Morrison Literary Archive
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
The literary Archive of Blake Morrison covering books and novels, poetry, journalism (print and broadcast) and plays and libretti. The collection also includes a substantial series of correspondence.
The collection is arranged into the following series:
1 - Books
2 - Poetry
3 - Plays and Libretti
3 - Journalism
5 - Talks, Lectures and Teaching
6 - Notebooks
7 - Letters
8 - Juvenilia and Early Work
9 - Press cuttings and Marketing materials
10 - Audio Visual and Digital materials.
Series are arranged chronologically by project (where possible) and may include multiple drafts, correspondence relating to the work and documents relating to publication and or performance.
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.
Access and usage
Access
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