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Also Known As Penelope Mary Knox
Born December 17, 1916 • Lincoln • England
Died April 28, 2000 (aged 83) • London • England
Awards And Honors Booker Prize (1979)
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
English writer
Sir Angus Wilson
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Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
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Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
John Wain
British critic and writer
A.N. Wilson
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D.M. Thomas
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Nancy Mitford, 1970.
Nancy Mitford
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Sheila Kaye-Smith
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Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
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Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
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J.G. Farrell
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A.S. Byatt
British scholar, literary critic, and novelist
Graham Swift
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Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
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William Golding
William Golding
British novelist
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
British statesman and author