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Also Known As	Dame Margaret Drabble
Born	June 5, 1939 (age 85) • Sheffield • England
Notable Works	“A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman” • “A Summer Bird-Cage” • “The Dark Flood Rises” • “The Millstone” • “The Needle’s Eye” • “The Peppered Moth” • “The Pure Gold Baby” • “The Radiant Way” • “The Sea Lady”
Notable Family Members	spouse Michael Holroyd • sister A. S. Byatt

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Muriel Spark

British writer

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

A.A. Milne

A.A. Milne

British author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

British author

Quiller-Couch, 1943

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain

British author

Jeanette Winterson

British author

John Wain

British critic and writer

Daphne du Maurier, c. 1930.

Daphne du Maurier

British writer

The man who invented Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Martin Amis

Martin Amis

British author

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

British actor, author, and director

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese-British author

Alan Garner

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Penelope Lively

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Frederick Forsyth

British author

Rendell, Ruth

Ruth Rendell

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V.S. Pritchett

British writer