Peter Ackroyd

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Born	London • England
Awards And Honors	Prix Goncourt (1985) • Costa Book Awards (1985) • Costa Book Awards (1984)
Notable Works	“Chatterton” • “English Music” • “First Light” • “Hawksmoor” • “Mr. Cadmus” • “The Fall of Troy” • “The Great Fire of London” • “The House of Doctor Dee” • “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde” • “The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders” • “Three Brothers”

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

A.N. Wilson

English writer

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

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Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Arthur Young

English writer

Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

British writer

Andrew Motion

British poet and author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

British novelist

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

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Robert Southey

English author

Nancy Mitford, 1970.

Nancy Mitford

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Philip Larkin

British poet

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author

Jeanette Winterson

British author

John Wain

British critic and writer

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British author

J.R. Ackerley

British writer and editor

V.S. Pritchett

British writer

Maurice Baring

British author

Salman Rushdie, 2008

Salman Rushdie

British-American writer