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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.
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John Fowles
John Fowles was the author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman and managed to slip both postmodernism and existentialism into his widely read novels.
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John Gross
John Gross was an academic prodigy who became a pre-eminent man of letters. He was frequently - and quite probably accurately - described as ‘the best-read man in Britain’.
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George Steiner
George Steiner was a French-born polymath described by A.S. Byatt as a ‘late, late, late Renaissance man’. His father made him learn the Iliad in Greek at the age of six.
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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly was the celebrated critic-editor of Horizon magazine. His book Enemies of Promise, about why he failed to become a novelist, has become the sacred text of literary underachievers ever since.
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Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was an American novelist, critic and political activist who, as an opponent of the Vietnam War, made a controversial visit to North Vietnam during the hostilities.
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Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was banned and burned in her native Ireland, although she was later described by Philip Roth as ‘the most gifted woman now writing in English’.
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Karl Miller
As an editor, Karl Miller nurtured some of the greatest British writers of the age but felt an underachiever: ‘I would like to have been more a writer of books than I have succeeded in being.’
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard was at the centre of a major Booker Prize controversy when her advocacy as a judge helped Ending Up by her husband, Kingsley Amis, on to the shortlist.