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Also Known As David Michael Jones
Born November 1, 1895 • England
Died October 28, 1974 (aged 78) • London • England
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
C.S. Lewis
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Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
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British author
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J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Portrait of Emily Bronte in profile, with curly dark hair, wearing a green dress with a white ruffled collar, from a painting by Branwell Bronte.
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
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John Berger
British essayist and cultural thinker
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
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G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Robert Graves
British writer

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