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Born May 8, 1912 • Winnipeg • Canada
Died January 28, 1995 (aged 82) • Vancouver • Canada
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff
Canadian political leader
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A.J.M. Smith
Canadian poet and anthologist
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Patrick Anderson
Canadian poet
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Tom MacInnes
Canadian writer
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
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John Lehmann
British poet
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Geoffrey Grigson
British editor and poet
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
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Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Canadian poet
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Earle Birney
Canadian writer and educator
William Kirby.
William Kirby
Canadian writer
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service
Canadian writer
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author

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