Laurence Bradford Dakin (1904–1972) was a writer and poet born in Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, and lived throughout Europe, eventually moving to Laguna Hills, California, where he died.At the sign of the hand and pen, p. 42 His best known work was Marco Polo: A Drama in Four Acts (1946), which reportedly sold over 30,000 copies in the United States and was hailed by John Masefield as the "work of a genius."Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians, p. 128 Dakin was published by Obelisk Press. His wife was watercolour painter Ilene Dakin (née Stitchbury). He had a son, Marco Dakin, and a grandchild, Anders Dakin.
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