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Also Known As Andrew Norman Wilson
Born October 27, 1950 (age 74) • England
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1988)
Notable Works “Aftershocks” • “Kindly Light” • “My Name is Legion” • “Scandal” • “The Healing Art” • “The Sweets of Pimlico” • “Unguarded Hours” • “The Vicar of Sorrows” • “Who Was Oswald Fish?” • “Wise Virgin”
Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Sir Angus Wilson
British author
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
English author
Nancy Mitford, 1970.
Nancy Mitford
British writer
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Jeanette Winterson
British author
John Wain
British critic and writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Peacock, oil painting by H. Wallis, 1858; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Love Peacock
English author
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Pamela Hansford Johnson
British novelist
Maurice Baring
British author
Douglas, Norman
Norman Douglas
British author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Andrew Motion
British poet and author
David Lodge
English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor
Michael Frayn
British author and translator