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Born August 11, 1913 • Bexhill • England
Died May 31, 1991 (aged 77) • Bury Saint Edmunds • England
Notable Works “Hemlock and After” • “The Old Men at the Zoo”
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Muriel Spark
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
English writer
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
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Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
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John Wain
British critic and writer
A.N. Wilson
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Sillitoe, Alan
Alan Sillitoe
British writer
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Daphne du Maurier, c. 1930.
Daphne du Maurier
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
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Behan
Brendan Behan
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Sean O’Faolain
Irish author
Alan Paton
Alan Paton
South African writer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
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