Jennifer Johnston

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Also Known As	Jennifer Prudence Johnston
Born	January 12, 1930 (age 94) • Dublin • Ireland
Awards And Honors	Costa Book Awards (1979)
Notable Works	“A Sixpenny Song” • “Fool’s Sanctuary” • “How Many Miles to Babylon?” • “Shadows on our Skin” • “Shadowstory” • “The Captains and the Kings” • “The Christmas Tree” • “The Gates” • “The Old Jest” • “The Railway Station Man”

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Behan

Brendan Behan

Irish author

James Plunkett

Irish writer

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany.

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany

Irish dramatist

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

British author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

British author

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Molly Keane

Irish author

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

Charles Robert Maturin

Irish writer

Walter Macken

Irish author

Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

Saint John Ervine

British dramatist

Colum, Padraic

Padraic Colum

Irish poet

William Trevor

William Trevor

Irish writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer