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E. M. Delafield

Prolific English author

Charles Dickens

English writer and social critic

Isak Dinesen

Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English

John Donne

English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England

Daphne du Maurier

English author and playwright

Alistair Cooke

British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States

Duff Cooper

British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and military and political historian

Edmund Crispin

Pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery , an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.

Roald Dahl

British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot

Charles Darwin

English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution