Celia Dale

Celia Dale (1912 – 31 December 2011), was an English author and book reviewer.

Family

Both Celia Dale's parents were actors – her father was the noted stage and television actor James Dale (1887–1985), her mother Marguerite Adamson.[1] She was a cousin of the novelist Sarah Harrison.[2] She was married to the journalist and critic Guy Ramsey, until his death in 1959.[3]

Work

Celia Dale's first novel, The Least Of These, was published in 1943 and she went on to write twelve more and a volume of short stories. Her later novels branched out into psychological crime.[3] She won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Best Short Story of the Year award for Lines of Communication and A Personal Call and other stories in 1986.[4] She also worked as a secretary to the author Rumer Godden.[5] Four of her novels were reissued as Faber Finds in 2008.[6]

Celia Dale died on 31 December 2011.[7]

References
  1. IMDB. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. Sarah Harrison's site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  3. Fantastic Fiction site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. "Celia Dale". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  5. Chisholm, Anne (1999). Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life. Pan Macmillan. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-330-36747-9. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  6. Faber obituary. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  7. "Obituary". The Times.
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