Cecil Day-Lewis His detective novel, "The Sad Variety" (1964), contains a scathing portrayal of doctrinaire communists, the Soviet Union's repression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and the ruthless tactics of Soviet intelligence agents. Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef.
John Lewis (typographer) in the UK and Reinhold in the US, including authors such as Peter Cook, Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, Ken Garland, Bob Gill, Norman Potter, David Pye, Paul Rand and Alison and Peter Smithson. The John Lewis Printing Collection of more than 20,000 items from the fifteenth to the twentieth century is held at Reading University. John Lewis (typographer) John Lewis (1912-1996) was a printer, illustrator and collector of printed ephemera. He was educated at Charterhouse and Goldsmiths', where his contemporaries included Denton Welch and Carel Weight. Lewis taught graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1963.