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Also Known As Sadie Smith
Born October 27, 1975 (age 49) • London • England
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (2000)
Notable Works “Changing My Mind” • “Feel Free” • “Grand Union” • “Intimations” • “NW” • “On Beauty” • “Swing Time” • “The Autograph Man” • “The Wife of Willesden” • “White Teeth”

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D.H. Lawrence
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Graham Greene
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Henry James
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Vernon Lee
English essayist
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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Michael Frayn
British author and translator
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
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A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
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J. B. Priestley
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P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
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Jeanette Winterson
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James Joyce
James Joyce
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Nick Joaquin
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Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
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