John Arden

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Born	October 26, 1930 • Barnsley • England
Died	March 28, 2012 (aged 81) • Galway • Ireland
Notable Works	novel • “All Fall Down” • “Left-Handed Liberty” • “Live Like Pigs” • “Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance” • “The Happy Haven” • “The Island of the Mighty” • “The Life of Man” • “The Non-Stop Connolly Cycle” • “The Workhouse Donkey” • “Waters of Babylon”

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

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Fay Weldon

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Shelagh Delaney

British dramatist

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

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Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Harold Pinter

British dramatist

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

British author

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

British actor, author, and director

Noël Coward

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Alun Owen

British dramatist

Caryl Churchill

British playwright

A.A. Milne

A.A. Milne

British author

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

British writer

P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Gabriel Josipovici

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John Mortimer, c. 1971.

Sir John Mortimer

British writer and lawyer