| LC control no. | n 79026880 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fisk, Nicholas |
| Variant(s) | Fisk, Nicholas, 1923- Higginbottom, David Lee, 1923-2016 |
| Birth date | 1923-10-14 |
| Death date | 2016-05-10 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Children's literature, English Science fiction, English Speculative fiction, English Illustration of books Advertising Photography Cartooning Jazz Acting Publishers and publishing |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Illustrators Advertising personnel Photographers Cartoonists Jazz musicians Actors Publishers and publishing |
| Found in | His The young man's guide to advertising, 1963. Trillions, 1998: t.p. (Nicholas Fisk) BL AL recd. 17 Mar. 1992 (Nicholas Fisk is pseud. of David Lee Higginbottom, born 1923) ALCS database, 18 Apr. 2005 (born 14 Oct. 1923) LC manual auth. card (hdg.: Fisk, Nicholas; has spent all his working life in London advertising agencies; "no conflict") Penguin books WWW site, May 20, 2016 (Nicholas Fisk has been an actor, jazz musician, illustrator, photographer and has worked in advertising; he has written more than fifty books, most of which are Science Fiction for older children) Guardian WWW site, viewed May 20, 2016 (Nicholas Fisk (David Higginbottom), writer, born 14 October 1923, London; died 10 May 2016; was a musician, cartoonist, publisher and advertising creative director before undertaking his best-known work, as the author of novels for children, which included Trillions (1971), Grinny (1973) and A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair (1980); these and many of his other books are highly readable works of speculative fiction; Nicholas Fisk was a pseudonym for David Higginbottom; a self-taught jazz-guitarist, he played with Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, and he also became a proficient enough illustrator to be a cartoonist for the Daily Sketch; after the second world war, during which he served as an RAF meteorological officer, Fisk worked for the publishers Lund Humphries before moving to a career in advertising; tried his hand as a writer and illustrator, first at non-fiction, with Look at Cars (1959); a few further non-fiction titles followed, including Lindbergh the Lone Flier (1968) and Richthofen the Red Baron (1968), both illustrated by Raymond Briggs; his first novel for children, The Bouncers (1964), carried his own illustrations) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | nb2005003265 |
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