Iain Blair was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair, wrote a series of romantic novels.
15 Facts About Iain Blair
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Iain Blair's father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was eleven, he moved to the United States to live with an aunt.
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Iain Blair wanted to return to Scotland and got a part-time job at age fifteen to save up for his fare home.
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Iain Blair won a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and after graduating from there secured work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Iain Blair's acting career came to an end after an exchange with Steven Spielberg when he went to audition for a part in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Iain Blair began writing while a stage actor, doing so in his spare time.
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Iain Blair started out as a thriller writer, but after being unsuccessful with this genre, switched to writing romantic fiction.
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Iain Blair followed it with a series of other Emma Iain Blair stories, many of them set in Scotland.
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Iain Blair had a fine ability to reflect social conditions within the body of his writing while the romantic element provides the main thrust to the story.
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Iain Blair was a fine wordsmith and an exceptional story-teller.
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Iain Blair was one of Britain's most popular authors and his books the most borrowed from British libraries.
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Iain Blair was forced to give up writing in 2007 after being diagnosed with diabetes.
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Iain Blair died as a result of the condition at his home in Torquay, Devon, on 3 July 2011.
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Iain Blair was married to the television producer and author Jane Blanchard.
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Iain Blair is survived by two sons from a previous marriage and a step son.