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Born July 13, 1935 (age 89) • Trinidad and Tobago
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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James Joyce
James Joyce
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Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
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Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
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Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
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Behan
Brendan Behan
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Fay Weldon
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Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ernest Dowson
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A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
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