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Born April 30, 1937 • England
Died September 26, 2025 (aged 88) • Newcastle upon Tyne • England
Awards And Honors PEN Pinter Prize (2009) • Costa Book Awards (1992)
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D.H. Lawrence
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
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T.S. Eliot
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Matthew Arnold
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
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Robert Southey
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W.S. Gilbert
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Caroline Norton
British writer
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Mary Russell Mitford
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Eden Phillpotts
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Terence Tiller
British writer
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