M. E. Clifton James M. E. Clifton James Meyrick Edward Clifton James (April 1898 – 8 May 1963) was an actor and soldier, with a resemblance to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. This was used by British intelligence as part of a deception campaign during the Second World War. Clifton James was born in Perth, Western Australia, the youngest son of notable Australian public servant John Charles Horsey James and his wife Rebecca Catherine Clifton. After serving in the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War, and seeing action at the Battle of the Somme, he took up acting, "starting at 15 shillings weekly with
Lucille Clifton Writers" (ed. Brenda Scott Wilkinson) and "Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology" (ed. Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press). Studies about her life and writings include "Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton" (LSU Press, 2004) by Hilary Holladay, and "Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters" (Praeger, 2006) by Mary Jane Lupton. In 1980 Clifton published "homage to my hips" in her book of poems, "Two-Headed Woman". "Two-Headed Woman" won the 1980 Juniper Prize and was characterized by its "dramatic tautness, simple language … tributes to blackness, [and] celebrations of women", which