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Born March 14, 1925 • Stoke-on-Trent • England
Died May 24, 1994 (aged 69) • Oxford • England
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1982)
Notable Works “Hurry on Down”
Movement / Style Angry Young Men
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
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V.S. Pritchett
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
British author
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Jeanette Winterson
British author
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author
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Maurice Baring
British author
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
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J.I.M. Stewart
British author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
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Robert Graves
British writer
Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
English writer

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