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1. Thomas Browne (1605)
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Seventeenth-century English author of Religio Medici and other works on religion, medicine, magic, and science. He published a 1646 encyclopedia entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
2. Agatha Christie (1890)
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Considered the "Queen of Crime," this British mystery writer became known for works such as Murder on the Orient Express and The Mousetrap. She was the 1955 recipient of the...
3. Michael Bond (1926)
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Authored 26 installments of the popular Paddington Bear book series between 1958 and 2014. He also penned the Olga da Polga series and the Monsieur Pamplemousse series.
4. Susan Hill (1942)
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Known for such novels as The Woman in Black and I'm the King of the Castle, this popular British author won the 1971 Somerset Maugham Award for the latter work....
5. Kate Cary (1967)
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One of four authors who wrote the novels in the popular Warriors series under the collective pen name of Erin Hunter. She published a novel called Bloodline under her actual...
6. Celia Rees (1949)
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Celia Rees is an English author. Celia Rees was born in Solihull West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls. She studied History and Politics at Warwick University...
7. Guy Adams (1976)
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Guy Adams is an English author comedian and actor possibly best known for the novel The World House. He has also written a BBC Books Torchwood novel The House That...
8. Mark Chadbourn (1960)
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Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy science fiction historical fiction and horror author with more than a dozen novels published around the world. Born in the English Midlands from a...
9. Clinton Heylin (1960)
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Clinton Heylin is an English author who has written extensively about popular music and the work of Bob Dylan.
10. Caryll Houselander (1901)
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Caryll Houselander was a lay Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist mystic popular religious writer and poet.
11. Diana Hendry (1941)
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Diana Lois Hendry is an English poet children's author and short story writer. She won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and was again shortlisted for the prize in 2012.
12. Peter Ackroyd (1949)
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Peter Ackroyd CBE FRSL is an English biographer novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture...
