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Born: Albert Eric Maschwitz June 10, 1901, Birmingham, England, UK
Died: October 27, 1969 (age 68), Ascot, Berkshire, UK
Pen name: sometimes known as Holt Marvell
Primary songwriting role: lyricist; also screenwirter, broadcaster and broadcasting executive
Co-writers: chiefly George Posford. Also with Manning Sherwin and Jack Strachey. For songs written with these co-writers and others, view the DBOPM database.
"He has written a few songs that people sing, a few plays that are still occasionally performed; he has had great happiness from women and made several good women unhappy, seen men die beside him in a war, worked hard at too many things, honoured his father and mother and in general done his damnest (which is perhaps a poor substitute for his best). He is congenitally incapable of jealousy, lamentably unsuspicious of other people's motives; he laughs and weeps too readily and is considerably lacking in moral courage."
Eric Maschwitz
research resources in print (listed chronologically):
Eric Maschwitz, No Chip on My Shoulder, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957 (autobiography).
Tim De Lisle, Lives of the Great Songs. London: Pavilion Books. 1994 (includes a chapter on "These Foolish Things" lyric by Maschwitz -- includes Maschwitz' role in the writing of the song).
Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, pp. 343-345 (brief biog. and lyrics for three songs).
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