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David Farrer
David Farrer was a publisher whose previous jobs included a stint as private tutor to the heir presumptive of the Maharajah of Gwalior and wartime private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook.
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Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode was an English academic and critic. The Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro called him: ‘the best living reader of Shakespeare anywhere, hands down’.
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Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender was, with his friends W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, one of the poets who came to define the 1930s and Weimar Germany.
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W.L. Webb
W.L. Webb served as the Guardian’s literary editor for some three decades from the late 1950s, bringing a stellar roster of reviewers to the books pages, including William Golding and Salman Rushdie.
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Ross Higgins
Ross Higgins was a Scottish bookseller and committee man who claimed he read 22 books each week so he could ‘give his customers the advice they so frequently ask for’.
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Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart was an academic who specialised in British popular culture. His evidence as an expert witness during the Lady Chatterley trial of 1960 was thought to be decisive.
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Rebecca West
Born in 1892, Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield and, in preparation for her role as a socialist feminist, took her adopted name from the spiky heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s play Rosmersholm.
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David Holloway
David Holloway was one of three former chairs of judges (alongside Malcolm Bradbury and W.L. Webb) who in 1993 were asked to choose the ‘Booker of Bookers’. The trio plumped for Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
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Philip Toynbee
Philip Toynbee was a journalist, public intellectual and novelist who, as a student communist in 1930s Oxford, was once beaten up by Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts.
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Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser, historian and writer of detective novels, is, with Dame Rebecca West, one of only two people to have been a Booker Prize judge in consecutive years.