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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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Richard Ehrlich is a writer, journalist and broadcaster specialising in food and drink. Born and educated in the USA, he moved to London in the 1970s and has been writing freelance ever since. He was a food columnist for the Guardian from 1989 to 2004, and drinks columnist for the Independe...
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Gillian Stead Eilersen is a writer and academic, and author of the first full-length biography of the iconic African author Bessie Head. She studied at the University of Natal and Odense University, Denmark, where she lectured in the Department of English until 1995. She was drawn to the writings of...
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Max Fatchen is Australia’s best known children’s author and poet. He grew up on an Adelaide Plains farm, entered journalism as a copy boy, and after World War II became a journalist, covering assignments such as the first atomic bomb at Maralinga and the assassination of President Kenned...
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Born in Manchester and brought up in Cheshire, Kate Fenton now lives on the North York Moors with her husband, actor Ian Carmichael. While reading PPE at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Kate supplemented her grant by playing the piano in Blackpool hotels and at the end of the occasional pier...
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