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Sir Peter Shaffer: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Sir Peter Levin Shaffer
Born May 15, 1926 • Liverpool • England
Died Ireland
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1985)
Notable Works “Amadeus” • “Equus” • “Five-Finger Exercise”
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Anne Ridler
British writer
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
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Robert Bolt
English playwright and screenwriter
John Osborne
John Osborne
British playwright and screenwriter
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Tom Stoppard
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
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Simon Gray
British dramatist
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Compton Mackenzie
Scottish writer
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Charles Dickens
British novelist
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane
English playwright
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Robert Southey
English author
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Harold Pinter
British dramatist
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Sir John Vanbrugh
British dramatist and architect

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