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Margot Bennett

マーゴット・ベネット

Māgotto Benetto

Aliases: Margot Mitchell / Margot Miller

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1912-01-19 （Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, Scotland）
Died
1980-12-06 （Camden, London） age 68
Nationality
Scottish
Languages
English
Residence History
Scotland → Australia → Sydney → London

Career

Occupations
author, screenwriter, copywriter, nurse, translator, broadcaster
Active Years
1943-1968
Nominations
Gold Dagger shortlist (The Man Who Didn't Fly)

Awards

Gold Dagger Award
1958
Work: Someone from the Past
Organization: Crime Writers' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Man Who Didn't Fly

1955 Thriller
Adaptations
  • [TV] The Man Who Didn't Fly (1958)

Someone from the Past

1958 Crime

The Long Way Back

1955 Science Fiction

About African colonization of Britain after nuclear holocaust.

The Widow of Bath

1952 Crime
Adaptations
  • [TV serial] The Widow of Bath (1959)

Bibliography

  • Time to Change Hats
  • Away Went the Little Fish
  • The Golden Pebble
  • The Widow of Bath
  • Farewell Crown and Goodbye King
  • The Long Way Back
  • The Man Who Didn't Fly
  • Someone from the Past
  • That Summer's Earthquake
  • The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation
  • The Furious Masters

Adaptations

  • The Man Who Liked Funerals (film, 1959)
  • The Crowning Touch (film, 1959)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Suspense fictioncrime and thriller specialist

Health

  • Broken arm, gunshot wounds to both legs
    スペイン内戦期（1930年代）
    Continued writing despite injuries sustained during war

Legacy

Best remembered for 1940s-1950s crime fiction, praised as one of the best Englishwomen in suspense. Also wrote thrillers and science fiction.

Trivia

  • Served as nurse, translator, broadcaster in Spanish Civil War, injured (broken arm, shot in legs).
  • Married in Barcelona by Republican soldier.
  • One son Rob died of muscular dystrophy.
  • Second woman commissioned for Doctor Who but story unproduced.
  • Supporter of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.