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Born June 26, 1914 • England
Died May 13, 1997 (aged 82) • England
Notable Works “A Moment of War” • “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” • “Cider with Rosie”
Enid Blyton, 1962
Enid Blyton
British author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Plomer
William Plomer
South African 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
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
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
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Albert Wendt
Samoan writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Bosie
Lord Alfred Douglas
English poet, editor, and publisher
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
British author and critic
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Hilary Mantel smiles while signing a copy of her book The Mirror & the Light at a table, with a Waterstones Piccadilly backdrop behind her.
Hilary Mantel
British writer
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
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
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author

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