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Also Known As Richard George Adams
Born May 9, 1920 • England
Died December 24, 2016 (aged 96)
Notable Works “Maia” • “Shardik” • “The Girl in a Swing” • “The Plague Dogs” • “Traveller” • “Watership Down”
Arthur Ransome
English author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
English novelist Jane Austen
Jane Austen
English novelist
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
British author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
British author
George Orwell
George Orwell
British author
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Essayist and novelist Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes
British author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
British writer
P.L. Travers.
P.L. Travers
British author