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Also Known As Dikran Kouyoumdjian
Born November 16, 1895 • Ruse • Bulgaria • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died June 23, 1956 (aged 60) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “The Green Hat”
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
P.G. Wodehouse sits at a desk with a typewriter, holding a pipe and looking at papers, in his Paris home in 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author
Sillitoe, Alan
Alan Sillitoe
British writer
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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Thomas King
American-born Canadian writer and photographer
Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien
Irish author
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
British author
Tom Stoppard wearing a dark suit, blue checkered shirt, and green tie, looking at the camera against a dark background.
Tom Stoppard
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
British author
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George MacDonald Fraser
British writer
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Francis Selormey
Ghanaian author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
British writer