George MacBeth
Born(1932-01-19)January 19, 1932
Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland
DiedFebruary 16, 1992(1992-02-16) (aged 60)
EducationKing Edward VII School
Alma materNew College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Poet and novelist
AwardsGeoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

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George Mann MacBeth (19 January 1932 – 16 February 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist.

Biography

George MacBeth was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland. When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield in England.[1] He was educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School, where he was Head Prefect in 1951 (photo), before going up to New College, Oxford, with an Open Scholarship in Classics.

He joined BBC Radio on graduating in 1955 from the University of Oxford. He worked there, as a producer of programmes on poetry, notably for the BBC Third Programme, until 1976.[2] He was a member of The Group.[1]

He resigned from the BBC to take up novel-writing; he introduced a series of thrillers involving the spy, Cadbury.

In his later post-BBC years, after divorcing his first wife, he married the novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán,[1] with whom he had a child, Alexander Morton George MacBeth. After a divorce, he moved with his new wife, Penny, to Ireland to live at Moyne Park, Abbeyknockmoy, near Tuam in County Galway. A few months later, George MacBeth was diagnosed as suffering from motor neurone disease, of which he died in early 1992. In the last poetry he wrote, MacBeth provides an anatomy of a cruel disease and the destruction it caused two people deeply in love. Penny and George had two children, Diana ("Lally") Francesca Ronchetti MacBeth and George Edward Morton Mann MacBeth.

Poems from Oby (1982) was a Choice of the Poetry Book Society. He wrote the compilation while living at The Old Rectory, Oby; Oby is a Norfolk hamlet. He received a Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for his work.

MacBeth died in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.[3]

Works

Poetry

Novels

As Editor

Books for Children

Non-Fiction

Short Fiction

Drama

References

  1. ^ a b c Jenkins, Alan (1996). Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  2. ^ Birch, Dinah, ed. (2009). Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Full text of "The Times , 1992, UK, English": GEORGE Mann MacBeth, obituary". The Times. 1992.