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Daphne du Maurier

English author and playwright

Alain de Botton

Swiss-born British philosopher and author

Roy Andries de Groot

British-born American culinary writer and wine critic

Daniel Defoe

English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy

E. M. Delafield

Prolific English author

Arthur C. Clarke

English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

Richard Cobb

British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford

Wilkie Collins

English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

British writer and physician

Cyril Connolly

English literary critic and writer