| LC control no. | n 79027218 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6062.U2 |
| Personal name heading | Lucie-Smith, Edward |
| Variant(s) | Smith, Edward Lucie- Lucie-Smith, John Edward McKenzie לוסי־סמית, אדוארד 路希-史密斯愛德華 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Kershaw, Peter, 1933- |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1933-02-27 |
| Place of birth | Kingston (Jamaica) |
| Field of activity | Art Photography Poetry |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Royal Air Force Turret Books |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Art critics Lecturers Authors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His A tropical childhood, and other poems, 1961. BL auth. file, 15 Sept. 2003 (Peter Kershaw is pseud. of Edward Lucie-Smith, born 1933) ALCS database, 1 Nov. 2006 (Edward Lucie-Smith, born 27 Feb. 1933) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1933) The art of Albert Paley, 1996: title page (Edward Lucie-Smith) jacket (Edward Lucie-Smith was born in Jamaica in 1933 and has lived in Great Britain since 1946; he is a well-known poet, art critic, lecturer and curator and is author of more than twenty books on art; Lucie-Smith lives in London) Wikipedia, June 2, 2016 (Edward Lucie-Smith; John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933), known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues; Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946; he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and, after a little time in Paris, he read History at Merton College, Oxford from 1951 to 1954; after serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer); he succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group; at the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3; he is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews; a prolific writer, he has written more than one hundred books in total on a variety of subjects, chiefly art history as well as biographies and poetry; he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the New British Painting (1988-1990) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art; he is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space) The Writers directory 1980-82, 1979 (Lucie-Smith, (John) Edward (McKenzie); also writes as Peter Kershaw; British; born 1933; poet, translator, and writer on art and photography; freelance journalist; Education Officer, R.A.F., 1954-1956; co-founder, Turret Books, London, 1965) |
| Associated language | eng |
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