Celia Dale (15 January 1912[1] – 31 December 2011), was an English author and book reviewer.
Both Celia Dale's parents were actors – her father was the noted stage and television actor James Dale (1887–1985), her mother Marguerite Adamson.
[3] She was married to the journalist and critic Guy Ramsey, until his death in 1959.
[4] Celia Dale's first novel, The Least Of These, was published in 1943 and she went on to write twelve more and a volume of short stories.
[4] She won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Best Short Story of the Year award for Lines of Communication and A Personal Call and other stories in 1986.