Elizabeth Warlock (born ) is a British magician and author. She has won several awards and is the daughter of the stage magician

Peter Warlock Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 189417 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published ...

Career

Warlock has been a stage magician since the age of 16. By the 1970s, she was internationally famous and writing a monthly column for ''

The Linking Ring ''The Linking Ring'' is a monthly print magic magazine published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) for its members since 1922. It is based in Bluffton, Ohio. In 2007, Samuel Patrick Smith, a magician, author and publisher ba ...

''. She is the author of the 2005 book, published by Kaufman and Company: ''One Hundred by Warlock'' - A collection of 100 magic tricks originated by her father, Peter Warlock. She is the 2002 winner of the British Magical Society's the David Berglas Award for services to the arts and in 1953 she was the first woman and the youngest person to win the

International Brotherhood of Magicians International Brotherhood of Magicians (I.B.M.) is an organization for both professional and amateur close-up and stage magicians, with approximately 15,000 members worldwide. The headquarters is in St. Charles, Missouri. There are over 300 l ...

British Ring Shield.Magic Times, Volume 52, Issues 1,562, 9 April 2002.
/ref> She has also won The Magic Circle's Golden Jubilee Grand Prix.

Personal life

Warlock was born and is from

King's Norton Kings Norton, alternatively King's Norton, is an area of Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was also a Birmingham City Council ward within the borough of Birmingham. The district lie ...

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, England. She is the daughter of stage magician

. She worked at the

Inland Revenue The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation ta ...

and is married to a magician.

References

External links

''One Hundred by Warlock'' review
on Martin's Magic (blog) {{DEFAULTSORT:Warlock, Elizabeth Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British magicians People from Kings Norton Female magicians 20th-century British women writers