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Born September 22, 1923 • Cardiff • Wales
Died September 28, 2014 (aged 91)
Notable Works “After Every Green Thing”
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Bernard Kops
British playwright, novelist, and poet
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
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John Berger
British essayist and cultural thinker
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G.K. Chesterton
British author
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David Lodge
English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor

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