Cecily Mackworth Author

Cecily Mackworth (1911–2006) was a writer, traveller, war correspondent and rebel. Life took her from the London School of Economics in the early 1930s through the Reichstag fire, the fall of France and the birth of Israel to the Paris of the 21st century. She had lived in Paris since the 1940s. During the next 30 years she published widely books and reviews. Notably, Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist life (1961) received the Darmstadt Award. Her contribution to Mallarmé studies is substantial.