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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”
Andrew Motion
British poet and author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
A.N. Wilson
English writer
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
Arthur Young
English writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Nancy Mitford, 1970.
Nancy Mitford
British writer
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