| LC control no. | n 50039655 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6052.R59 |
| Personal name heading | Brown, George Mackay |
| Variant(s) | Mackay Brown, George |
| Associated country | Scotland |
| Associated place | Orkney (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1921-10-17 |
| Death date | 1996-04-13 |
| Place of birth | Stromness (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Kirkwall (Scotland) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets |
| Found in | His The year of the whale [poems] 1965. His Selected poems, 1954-1983, 1991: verso of t.p. (BL CIP data: Mackay Brown, George) For the islands I sing, 1997: t.p. (George Mackay Brown) p. 12 (b. Oct. 1921, Stromness, on main island of Orkney) jkt. (wrote poetry and short stories; d. 1996) ALCS database, 16 Nov. 2006 (George Mackay Brown, born 17 Oct. 1921) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 6 July, 2015 (Brown, George Mackay, poet and writer; born on 17 October 1921 in Stromness, on mainland Orkney; awarded an OBE in 1974 and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1977; Orkney was his only possible home; died Kirkwall, on 13 April 1996) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60465> |
| Associated language | eng |
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