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Brothers Adrian and Michael Daniel have been running The Gate, London’s most successful vegetarian restaurant, since December 1989. Described as “where Asia meets the Mediterranean”, the restaurant's eclectic repertoire is influenced by Mediterranean, Pacific Rim and internatio...
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Born in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat spoke only a few words of English by the age of 12, when her parents moved to New York. Her first novel was Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), and it introduced an author keen to expose her country's traumatic history and engage with the Haitia...
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D. M. Devine: 1920-1980 Dominic Devine was the author of a succession of internationally successful mystery and whodunit novels. Dominic was Secretary and Registrar of the University of St. Andrew’s and wrote thirteen books in total, under his own name (David McDonald Devine) ...
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Tom Dixon is one of the world’s most innovative product designers, a self-styled “Maverick Industrialist” and design nonconformist. His enthusiasm for design encompasses many concepts and materials, from high-end, unique handcrafted originals, through to spearheading collectable, m...
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Marcia Douglas was born in England and grew up in Jamaica, and is a leading voice in Caribbean writing. She is the author of the novels Madam Fate (1999) and Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells (2005) as well as a collection of poetr...
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Born in 1939, Jonty Driver is a South African-born poet and novelist. He spent his early life in South Africa, and for two years was the outspokenly anti-Apartheid President of the National Union of South African Students. After being detained by the police on suspicion of involvement with the Afric...
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Elaine Dundy: 1921-2008 Elaine Dundy was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright. She was born and raised in New York, where she attended drama school with future stars such as Tony Curtis and Rod Steiger. Working as an actress in Paris and London, she m...
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Richard Dyer is an academic and author, who founded the Chair of Film Studies at the University of Warwick and is now Professor of Film Studies at King’s College, London. He studied French and worked in the theatre before returning to academia, and in 1977 organised the first gay cinema event ...
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