Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways, starting with A Question of Proof (1935).
- Occupation
- poet, novelist, writer, screenwriter
- Position held
- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Born
- April 27, 1904, 1904
- Died
- May 22, 1972, May 2, 1972
