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Also Known As Violet Paget
Born October 14, 1856 • Boulogne • France
Died February 13, 1935 (aged 78) • Italy
Notable Works “Miss Brown” • “Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy”
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie smiling, wearing a black top and long braids styled in a top bun, at the Economic Forum of Cernobbio in Italy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian author
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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Charles Dickens
British novelist
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer
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Fay Weldon
British author
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A.A. Milne
British author
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J. B. Priestley
British writer
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
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Michael Frayn
British author and translator