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Also Known As Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton
Born March 17, 1904 • England • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died September 23, 1962 (aged 58) • England
Notable Works “Gas Light”
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Thomas Nashe
English writer
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
English author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood
British-American author
Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
Robert Shaw
British actor, novelist and playwright
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
British author
Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ernest Dowson
British poet
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer
J. B. Priestley
British writer
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer
Nigel Dennis
British author