Blake Morrison

Philip Blake Morrison FRSL is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

8 October 1950

Born on the same birth date (8 October 1950): Robert "Kool" Bell

Born on the same birth day (8 October): Ardal O'Hanlon • Aya Hirano • Billy Conn • Dennis Kucinich • Ed Kirkpatrick • Eddie Rickenbacker • Fred Cash • Henry Louis Le Chatelier • Jakob Arjouni • Kari Korhonen • Kiichi Miyazawa • Kristanna Loken • Louis Dodds • Mick O'Driscoll • Peter Horrocks • Putthipong Assaratanakul • Renate Groenewold

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