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Also Known As Edith Mary Pargeter • Jolyon Carr
Born September 28, 1913 • England
Died October 14, 1995 (aged 82) • England
Notable Works “A Morbid Taste for Bones” • “Death and the Joyful Woman”
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
P.D. James
British novelist
Colin Dexter
British author
Rendell, Ruth
Ruth Rendell
British author
Dick Francis
Dick Francis
British jockey and writer
Bram Stoker, creator of Count Dracula
Bram Stoker
Irish writer
Sheridan Le Fanu
Irish writer
Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
Arthur Hailey
Canadian writer
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
British writer
English novelist Jane Austen
Jane Austen
English novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
British author