Marie Muir

Marie Agnes Muir , pseudonyms Monica Blake and Barbara Kaye (* 1908 in Yorkshire , Northern England , † 1998 in London ) was an English writer .

Life

Muir settled in Scotland after the end of World War II . There she married the Scottish writer Thomas Muir , a distant relative of the polymath John Muir . While her husband wrote detective novels , she made a name for herself as an author of books for children and young people . In addition to her own name, she also used the pseudonyms Monica Blake and Barbara Kaye and thus published for adults.

With her husband, Muir lived in an estate in Aberlady Bay on the Firth of Forth . When he died, she moved to Edinburgh for some time . During this time she served as the secretary of the Scottish Center of International PEN. For some time she settled in East Lothian . Marie Muir spent the last years of her life in London, where she died in 1998 at the age of 90.

Works (selection)

under their own name

• Torridons' triumph . Collins, London 1967.
• Torridon's surprise . Collins, London 1961.
• Torridons' in Spain . Collins, London 1962.
• Torridons' in trouble . Collins, London 1963.

under the pseudonym Barbara Kaye

• Pam, Pot and Kettle . Collins, London 1964.
• Kettle's great adventure . Collins, London 1965.

under the pseudonym Monica Blake

• Hidden Heritage . London 1968.
• Pelham's folly . Hale Press, London 1977, ISBN 0-709-1613-6-0 .
• The dark horseman . Hale Press, London 1977, ISBN 0-709-1624-9-9 .
• Austrian romance . Hale Press, London 1978, ISBN 0-709-1662-5-7 .
• Poll of love . London 1978.
• Venetian Dream . Hale Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-709-1736-4-4 .
• Come in from the dark . Hale Press, London 1982, ISBN 0-709-1983-8-8 .

literature

• Brief info on collectingbooksandmagazines.com (English)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2001.
• Literature by and about Marie Muir in the WorldCat bibliographic database