The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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| Birth: | 1943 |
| Death: | 1998 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Biographer, Journalist, Poet |
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Alan Norman Bold was a Scottish poet, biographer, and journalist. He was born in Edinburgh. Alan Bold married an art teacher, Alice; they had a daughter, Valentina, who is now head of Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow at Dumfries. He edited Hugh MacDiarmid's Letters and wrote the influential biography MacDiarmid. His debut work, Society Inebrious, with a lengthy introduction by MacDiarmid, was published in 1965, during Bold's final university year. He also edited The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse and published a 1973 biography of Robert Burns.
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