Personal Life
Blake married Tom Baxter in 1940. They had three children: sons, Richard Whitney (born November 24, 1944) and Brian Thomas (born February 18, 1946), and daughter, Meredith Ann (born June 21, 1947). In 1988, Brian began co-ownership (with Blake) in a Minneapolis bookstore, Baxter's Books which closed in 1998. Her daughter, Meredith, became an actress.
In 1957, Blake married talent agent Jack X Fields; they divorced in 1967.
From August 24, 1968, until her death in 2002 she was married to writer/collaborator Allan Manings (1924–2010).
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