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Also Known As Terence Hanbury White
Born May 29, 1906 • Mumbai • India
Died January 17, 1964 (aged 57) • Piraeus • Greece
Notable Works “The Once and Future King”
Subjects Of Study Arthurian legend
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood
British-American author
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
British author
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
British author
Compton Mackenzie
Scottish writer
Enid Bagnold
British author
Keith Waterhouse
British writer
Robin Maugham
British author
Simon Raven
English writer
Stan Barstow
British novelist
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
David Storey
British writer
Timothy Findley
Canadian author
Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
Paul Bailey
British author
Emlyn Williams
Welsh actor
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet

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