Celia Dale (15 January 1912[1] – 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.[2] She was a cousin of the novelist Sarah Harrison.[3] She was married to the journalist and critic Guy Ramsey, until his death in 1959.[4]

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 were psychological thrillers.[4] 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.[5] She also worked as a secretary to the author Rumer Godden.[6] Four of her novels were reissued as Faber Finds in 2008.[7]

Celia Dale died on 31 December 2011, just a couple of weeks before her 100th birthday.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors: First revision. Gale Research Company. 1969. p. 272.
  2. ^ IMDB. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  3. ^ Sarah Harrison's site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Fantastic Fiction site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Celia Dale". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  6. ^ Chisholm, Anne (1999). Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life. Pan Macmillan. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-330-36747-9. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Faber obituary. Retrieved 23 June 2020". Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Obituary". The Times.


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