George Blake (novelist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Blake (novelist)

Scottish journalist, literary editor and novelist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1961

Profession: writer, journalist, literary editor, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

George Blake (1893–1961) was a Scottish journalist, literary editor and novelist.
His The Shipbuilders (1935) is considered a significant and influential effort to write about the Scottish industrial working class.
"At a time when the idea of myth was current in the Scottish literary world and other writers were forging theirs out of the facts and spirit of rural life, Blake took the iron and grease and the pride of the skilled worker to create one for industrial Scotland." As a literary critic, he wrote a noted work against the Kailyard school of Scottish fiction; and is taken to have formulated a broad-based thesis as cultural critic of the "kailyard" representing the "same ongoing movement in Scottish culture" that leads to "a cheapening, evasive, stereotyped view of Scottish life." He was well known as a BBC radio broadcaster by the 1930s.