Louis Johnson

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Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

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Louis Johnson: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Louis Albert Johnson
Born	September 27, 1924 • Wellington • New Zealand
Died	November 1, 1988 (aged 64) • Winchester • England
Notable Works	“Bread and a Pension” • “Coming and Going” • “Land Like a Lizard” • “New Worlds for Old” • “Onion” • “True Confessions of the Last Cannibal” • “Winter Apples”

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

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Anne Ridler

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Allen Curnow

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C.K. Stead

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Short-story writer Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

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Alfred Domett

prime minister of New Zealand

Keri Hulme

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Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

Maurice Shadbolt

New Zealand author

Fleur Adcock

New Zealand poet

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron

British poet

Robert Burns

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Newman, John Henry

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Scottish novelist

The man who invented Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

British poet

Quiz

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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