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Author of 127 books including A Cartoon History of Architecture

Born in London, Osbert Lancaster was educated at St Ronan's School, and then at Charterhouse and Lincoln College, Oxford.

He graduated with a fourth-class degree in English after an extra year beyond …

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Douglas Adams

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Author of 120 books including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to t…

Raymond Chandler

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Author of 449 books including The Big Sleep

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company execut…

Virginia Woolf

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Author of 1842 books including Mrs. Dalloway

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant fi…

Rudyard Kipling

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Author of 7186 books including The Jungle Book

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Wou…