First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Cecil Nathan Sidney |
Woolf |
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Male | 1887 | 1917 | |
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Ahmed |
Ali |
Ahmed Ali was born on 1 July 1910 in Delhi, India. He was born to Syed Shujauddin, a civil servant, and Ahmad Kaniz Asghar Beg. Ali completed his primary schooling moving around different cities before enrolling at Aligarh Muslim University in 1926, where he first took a class in English poetry. |
Male | Academic, Critic, Diplomat, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Radio | 1 July 1910 | 14 January 1994 |
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Barrington |
Gates |
Sidney Barrington “Barry” Gates was a scientist, an artist, a father and a friend. During his lifetime he wrote over 150 journal articles in the aerodynamic field, multiple collections of poetry, short plays, and contributed to various magazines as a book critic. |
Male | Aviation Consultant, Scientist | 1893 | 1973 |
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Charles |
Davies |
Charles Davies was a Welsh-born writer, poet, and lecturer. He was born in 1901 in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire. He began his studies at the University College, Aberystwyth. |
Male | Academic, Writer | 1901 | 1953 |
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Clive |
Bell |
Clive Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire on 16th September 1881. His parents were William Heward Bell and Hannah Taylor Cory. They had three other children: Cory and Lorna (elder) and Dorothy (younger). |
Male | Critic, Writer | 1881 | 1964 |
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Storer |
Lunt |
Storer Boardman Lunt was born on July 8th, 1897 in Portland, Maine. Lunt lived a relatively quiet and modest personal life. At the age of 21, he briefly joined the army in World War I in field artillery. |
Male | Press Worker, Publisher | 1897 Jul 8th | 1977 Sep 10th |
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Hugh |
Walpole |
Hugh Seymour Walpole was born on 13 March 1884 in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. His father was the Revd George Henry Somerset Walpole, the first Precentor of Truro Cathedral. |
Male | Writer | 1884 | 1941 |
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John Maynard |
Keynes |
John Maynard Keynes (‘Maynard’) was an economist, investor, administrator and policymaker, famous for his innovations in economic theory, and for his work at Britain’s finance ministry, H.M. Treasury, where he helped to fund two world wars and to negotiate two peaces. |
Male | Economist | 5 June 1883 | 21 April 1946 |
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Julian |
Bell |
Julian Bell (1908-1937) was the elder son of Vanessa and Clive Bell and the nephew of Virginia Woolf. As such he literally grew up at the very heart of Bloomsbury. |
Male | Poet | 1908 Feb 4th | 1937 Jul 18th |
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Rainer Maria |
Rilke |
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most significant modernists to write in German. Born in Prague, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he escaped the military career expected by his father and devoted himself to literature. |
Male | Novelist, Poet | 1875 Dec 4th | 1926 Dec 29th |
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William |
Plomer |
Born to English parents in Pietersburg, South Africa on 10 December 1903, William Plomer would find early success with his novel Turbott Wolfe |
Male | Editor, Novelist, Writer | 1903 Dec 10th | 1973 Sep 20th |
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Kingsley |
Martin |
Basil Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation from 1931-1960, advocated the idea that a free press which promotes information literacy is one of the most important traits of democratic society. |
Male | Editor, Journalist | 1897 Jul 28th | 1969 Feb 16th |
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Mulk Raj |
Anand |
Mulk Raj Anand (12 Dec. 1905- 28 Sept. 2004) was a prolific novelist, critic, cultural historian, and political activist whose career spanned several tumultuous eras in Indian history and crossed divides between cultures, castes, and continents. |
Male | 1905 Dec 12th | 2004 Sep 28th |