Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Blight, John, 1913-
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Blight, John, 1913-1995
Other form(s) of name
- Blight, Frederick John, 1913-1995
- Blight, F. John
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1913-1995
History
John Blight was born in Unley, South Australia in 1913. His family moved to Queensland soon after. He was educated at Brisbane State High School. He subsequently gained qualifications as an accountant and worked in the timber industry. He was married to Beverley Madelaine D'Arcy-Irvine in 1942. They had two daughters. Blight's first published poems appeared in the Bulletin in 1939 and his first book The Old Pianist appeared in 1945. In 1968 he moved to Brisbane where he became a full-time writer in 1973 with the support of a fellowship from the Literature Board. -- excerpted from AustLit
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, AM, 05-May-2020.
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Author record, John Blight, AustLit, accessed online 28-Jan-2020.
Stephany Evans Steggall, 'Blight, Frederick John (1913–1995)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed online 05-May-2020.