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Born June 14, 1939 (age 85) • London • England
Notable Works “A Cruel Madness” • “Distance” • “Emperor” • “Falling” • “Night of Fire” • “To the Last City” • “Turning Back the Sun” • “Where Nights Are Longest”
Rosamond Nina Lehmann
British novelist
Dame Rose Macaulay
British author
Daphne du Maurier, c. 1930.
Daphne du Maurier
British writer
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Helen Maria Williams
English writer
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
British author
Llewelyn Powys
British author
Pratchett, Terry
Terry Pratchett
English author
Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble
British author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
British author
Jeanette Winterson
British author
John Wain
British critic and writer
William Golding
William Golding
British novelist
H. Rider Haggard, caricature by “Spy” (pseudonym of Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair, 1905.
Sir H. Rider Haggard
British author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Arthur Young
English writer