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Also Known As Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
Born March 30, 1909 • Vienna • Austria-Hungary
Died November 3, 2001 (aged 92) • London • England
Notable Works “The Story of Art”
Linda Nochlin
American art historian
Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Ian Maclaren
Scottish author
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
British actor, writer, and director
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
British-American writer
Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor
Indian politician
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian journalist and writer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
British author
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
British author and critic
V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer
A.S. Byatt
British scholar, literary critic, and novelist
Edith Sitwell, 1959
Edith Sitwell
British poet