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Also Known As Mary Pearson
Born December 10, 1903 • London • England
Died August 29, 1992 (aged 88) • England
Notable Works “Bed-Knob and Broomstick” • “The Borrowers”
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Penelope Lively
British author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
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
P.L. Travers.
P.L. Travers
British author
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling
British author
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz
British author
Author Philip Pullman smiling and wearing a black beret, glasses, and a light jacket over a white shirt.
Philip Pullman
British writer
Maria Edgeworth, detail of an engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1873
Maria Edgeworth
Anglo-Irish author
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman and writer
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Diana Wynne Jones
British writer
Portrait of Alan Alexander Milne, circa 1920, wearing a light suit and bow tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
A.A. Milne
British author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
British author
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Rumer Godden
British writer
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
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Walter Allen
British writer

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