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Born January 11, 1911 • England
Died December 7, 1981 (aged 70) • Bath • England
Notable Works “The Biological Time Bomb”
Ian Maclaren
Scottish author
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
British actor, writer, and director
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
British poet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
British-American writer
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian journalist and writer
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
British author and critic
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author
V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer
A.S. Byatt
British scholar, literary critic, and novelist
Edith Sitwell, 1959
Edith Sitwell
British poet
Arthur Koestler
British writer
Lawrence Durrell, 1968.
Lawrence Durrell
British author
P.D. James
British novelist
Robert Fisk
British journalist and author