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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
British writer
Fay Weldon
British author
A lobby card for A Taste of Honey
Shelagh Delaney
British dramatist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
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
British author
Gabriel Josipovici
British author
John Mortimer, c. 1971.
Sir John Mortimer
British writer and lawyer