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Also Known As	Franklin Birkinshaw
Born	September 22, 1931 • England
Died	January 4, 2023 (aged 91) • Northampton • England
Notable Works	“Action Replay” • “Affliction” • “Auto da Fay” • “Chalcot Crescent” • “Darcy’s Utopia” • “Death of a She-Devil” • “Down Among the Women” • “Female Friends” • “Growing Rich” • “Praxis” • “Remember Me” • “Rhode Island Blues” • “Splitting” • “The Cloning of Joanna May” • “The Fat Woman’s Joke” • “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil” • “The President’s Child” • “Wicked Women: A Collection of Short Stories” • “Words of Advice” • “Worst Fears”

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

British writer

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Michael Frayn

British author and translator

John Mortimer, c. 1971.

Sir John Mortimer

British writer and lawyer

A lobby card for A Taste of Honey

Shelagh Delaney

British dramatist

Behan

Brendan Behan

Irish author

Timothy Findley

Canadian author

Spike Milligan

Irish writer and comedian

Irwin Shaw

American author

Leif Panduro

Danish writer

James Plunkett

Irish writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Ben Elton

Ben Elton

British actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and dramatist

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

British author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Playwright Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

British playwright

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

British actor, author, and director

Noël Coward

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer