Edward Blishen

Edward Blishen 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, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. For The God Beneath the Sea Blishen and Garfield won the 1970 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. ^{Edward Blishen, English author and radio host (d. 1996)}

29 April 1920

Born on the same birth date (29 April 1920): Harold Shapero

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