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Paul Overy: 1940-2008 Paul Overy was a renowned author and academic, specialising in the history and theory of 20th century art, architecture and design. He was best known for several important books on the Dutch art movement De Stijl, the most recent published by ...
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Donald Payne is a prolific author, and has been writing for writing under a number of pseudonyms. Educated at Charterhouse and Corpus Christi, Oxford, Donald served in the Second World War as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and after working in publishing became a full time writer in the 1950s. He has...
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Delores Phillips was born in Georgia. She is a graduate of Cleveland State University and works as a nurse in a facility for abused women and children in Cleveland. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed The Darkest Child, published in 2005 by Marion Boyars.
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Alison Plowden: Alison Plowden was a history writer, who specialised in engaging and readable studies of the Tudor and Stuart periods. She was born in India, and worked as a scriptwriter and editor for the BBC before leaving to work full-time as a writer. She had a great many books...
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French born Agnès Poirier is a journalist and author, with an impressive track-record in print, broadcasting and online. Educated first at the Sorbonne, then the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and most recently the LSE, she moved to London to write for Le Monde
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David Pownall is an internationally-renowned playwright, who also has novels, poetry and a local history book to his name. Born in Liverpool and educated at Keele University, he worked for ten years in the motor industry and Zambian copper mining before turning his attention to the theatre. He is dr...
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Born in London, William Radice has pursued a double career as a poet and as a scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited more than thirty books. His volumes of verse have been published in the UK and South Asia, and include Strivings (1980), Louring Skies (1...
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Forrest Reid: 1875-1946 Forrest Reid was born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. The author of some sixteen novels, his first published work was The Kingdom of Twilight (1904), and others include The Garden God (1905; republished 2...
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Lucy Riall is a writer and historian, specialising in the social, political and cultural history of modern Italy. Educated at LSE and Newnham College, Cambridge, she has held academic posts in Paris, Berlin and the USA, and is currently Professor of Modern European History in the School of History, ...
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Susan Richards has a BA in English from the University of Colorado and a Master of Social Work degree from Adelphi University. She lives in Olivebridge, New York, with three dogs, two cats, and four horses, and teaches writing at SUNY Ulster and Marist College. Her first book to be published in the ...
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