Douglas Oliver, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Douglas Oliver

British writer

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1937

Date of Death: 21-Apr-2000

Profession: poet

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Douglas Dunlop Oliver (14 September 1937 – 21 April 2000) was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator.
The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s.
He received a B.A.
(literature) in 1975 and an M.A.
(applied linguistics) in 1982.
Oliver subsequently lived in Brightlingsea, Paris, New York, and again Paris, usually working as a lecturer.