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Born October 15, 1905 • Leicester • England
Died July 1, 1980 (aged 74) • London • England
Notable Works “Second Look” • “Strangers and Brothers” • “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”
Notable Family Members spouse Pamela Hansford Johnson
Subjects Of Study literature • science • culture

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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Portrait of Jane Austen seated, wearing a light blue dress and bonnet, holding a closed book on her lap with a thoughtful expression.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Sir William Golding
William Golding
English novelist
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Max Beerbohm
British humorist
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
Tom Stoppard wearing a dark suit, blue checkered shirt, and green tie, looking at the camera against a dark background.
Tom Stoppard
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British author
V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer
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Doris Lessing
British writer
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Anita Brookner
British author
Novelist Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge
English author
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Gabriel Josipovici
British author
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Arthur Morrison
British author
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Charles Langbridge Morgan
British author and critic

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