Michael Frayn

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Born	September 8, 1933 (age 91) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Costa Book Awards (2002)
Notable Works	travel literature • “A Very Private Life” • “Afterlife” • “Alphabetical Order” • “Benefactors” • “Copenhagen” • “Democracy” • “Donkeys’ Years” • “Headlong” • “Here: A Play in Two Acts” • “Make and Break” • “My Father’s Fortune” • “Noises Off” • “Now You Know” • “Skios” • “Spies” • “The Russian Interpreter” • “The Tin Men” • “The Trick of It”

Ben Elton

Ben Elton

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American writer

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

American author

William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

American author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby

British writer

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

British writer

Playwright Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

British playwright

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

British actor, author, and director

David Hare

David Hare

British playwright and director

British writer and director Mike Leigh.

Mike Leigh

British writer and director

Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes

British actor, producer, novelist, and screenwriter

Noël Coward

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer

Fay Weldon

British author

Alun Owen

British dramatist

David Storey

British writer

P.G. Wodehouse, 1945.

P.G. Wodehouse

British author

David Mercer

British playwright

A lobby card for A Taste of Honey

Shelagh Delaney

British dramatist