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Author Description David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.<br /><br />He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, <i>Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood</i>. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. Dr. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.<br /><br />During World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.<br /><br />Daiches' first published work was <i>The Place of Meaning in Poetry</i>, published in 1935. He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture.<br /><br />Daiches was the father of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/130588.Jenni_Calder" title="Jenni Calder" rel="nofollow noopener">Jenni Calder</a>, also a Scottish literary historian.

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