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Born February 18, 1929 (age 96) • London • England
Notable Works “An Expensive Place to Die” • “Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk” • “Bomber” • “Close-Up” • “Funeral in Berlin” • “Only When I Larf” • “SS-GB” • “Spy Story” • “The Billion Dollar Brain” • “The Ipcress File”
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
British author
Robert Graves
British writer
David Mitchell
English author
J.G. Farrell
British writer
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman and writer
Horace Smith
English writer
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, c. 1831; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
British author
Jeanette Winterson
British author
Winston Graham
British author
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
British writer
John le Carré
John le Carré
British writer
Ambler, Eric
Eric Ambler
British author
Charles Reade
British author and producer
Daniel Maclise: portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth
British author
Thomas Head Raddall
Canadian author
Bryher
British author
George MacDonald Fraser
British writer
Henry Treece
English author
William Kirby.
William Kirby
Canadian writer
Rex Warner
British writer