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Elizabeth Bowen

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Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.

Diana Athill

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British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Margaret Atwood

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Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor

Jane Austen

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English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century

J. G. Ballard

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English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos

W. N. P. Barbellion

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Nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings , an English diarist who was responsible for The Journal of a Disappointed Man