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Margaret Atwood

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

Jane Austen

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

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

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

J. M. Barrie

Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan