Dick, Kay

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Dick, Kay
Date of birth
1915-07-29
Date of death
2001-10-19
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Biographers
Journalists
Novelists
Periodical editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 79345894
Wikidata: Q18645717
Library of congress: n 80040202
Sources of Information
  • Kay Dick, aka Jeremy Scott. Novels: ... Doctor Jekyll and Miss Hyde (1983) (as by Jeremy Scott) ( (Fantastic Fiction WWW site, 27 August 2019) )
  • They, 2022:CIP title page (Kay Dick) LAC CIP application (British)
  • Wikipedia, 27 August 2019(Kay Dick (29 July 1915 - 19 October 2001) was an English journalist, writer, novelist and autobiographer, who sometimes wrote under the name Edward Lane. Dick was born Kathleen Elsie ; at 26, became the first woman director in English publishing at P.S. King & Son. She later became a journalist, working at the New Statesman. For many years, she edited the literary magazine The Windmill, under the nom de plume Edward Lane. Dick wrote five novels between 1949 and 1962, including the famous An Affair of Love (1953) and Solitaire (1958). She also wrote literary biography, researching the lives of Colette and Carlyle. In 1960 she published Pierrot, about the commedia dell'arte)
  • Young man, 1951:title page (Kay Dick)
  • His Young man, 1951.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1915)

Wikipedia description:

Kathleen Elsie "Kay" Dick (29 July 1915 – 19 October 2001) was an English journalist, writer, novelist and autobiographer, who sometimes wrote under the name Edward Lane and Jeremy Scott. She was called "the first woman director in English publishing" and she is celebrated for her dystopian "lost" novel, They.

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