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Also Known As Arthur Sarsfield Ward • Arthur Sarsfield Wade • Arthur Henry Ward
Born February 15, 1883 • Birmingham • England
Died June 1, 1959 (aged 76) • London • England
Wilkie Collins.
Wilkie Collins
British author
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Winston Graham
British author
Wallace, Edgar
Edgar Wallace
British writer
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Marie Adelaide Lowndes
British novelist
Kate Atkinson stands with arms crossed, wearing a dark floral-patterned jacket, looking at the camera against a dark background.
Kate Atkinson
British author and playwright
Black and white portrait of author Eric Ambler, wearing a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a thoughtful expression.
Eric Ambler
British author
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Colin Dexter
British author
Rendell, Ruth
Ruth Rendell
British author
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Leslie Charteris
British-American writer
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
John Bunyan
John Bunyan
English author
Portrait of Jane Austen seated, wearing a light blue dress and bonnet, holding a closed book on her lap with a thoughtful expression.
Jane Austen
English novelist
George Orwell, c. 1940
George Orwell
British author
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Portrait drawing of George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, with wavy dark hair, lace collar, and a calm expression, based on an 1865 work by Sir Frederic William Burton.
George Eliot
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
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author