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Born October 17, 1921 • Scotland
Died April 13, 1996 (aged 74) • Kirkwall • Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
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Neil Miller Gunn
Scottish author
James Hogg, detail of an oil painting by W. Nicholson; on loan to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
James Hogg
Scottish poet
George Macdonald, engraving
George Macdonald
British author
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John Banim
Irish author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.
Colm Tóibín
Irish author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author

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