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Also Known As John Boynton Priestley
Born September 13, 1894 • Bradford • England
Died August 14, 1984 (aged 89) • Stratford-upon-Avon • England
Notable Works “Angel Pavement” • “The Good Companions”
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Michael Frayn
British author and translator
Vernon Lee
English essayist
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
Robert Shaw
British actor, novelist and playwright
A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer
P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer