gavin lambert
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, ...
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Bertrand Russell
A British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He wa...
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honours in English literature.He was best known f...
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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguo...
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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 -1974) was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940 - 1949) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobio...
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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904 - 1986) was an English novelist. His The Berlin Stories collection provided the inspiration for the play I Am a Camera (1951), the 1955 film I Am a Camera (both starring Julie Harris), the Broadway musical Caba...
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Howard Austen
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Don Bachardy
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William Caskey
William (Bill) Caskey was a photographer and a lover of Christopher Isherwood. The two travelled in 1947 to South America, where Isherwood wrote the prose and Caskey took the photographs for a 1949 book about their journey, The Condor and the Cows....
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Tom Driberg
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Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (1887 - 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoolog...
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Gavin Lambert
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Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor....
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W.h. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973), who published as W.H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and tech...