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David Hughes
David Hughes was a novelist who was reduced to tears by Souvenir, the film of his book The Pork Butcher. They were not tears of joy: ‘That was terrible, terrible,’ he said on leaving the cinema.
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Brendan Gill
The American Brendan Gill, who died in 1997, was a writer for the New Yorker, to which he contributed more than 1,200 articles, mostly about architecture or the theatre, over a 60-year span.
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Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was a poet and perhaps the most famous librarian in the world. In 2016, he was commemorated with a stone memorial in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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Derwent May
Derwent May, who died in 2020, was a literary and arts editor, whose first and greatest love was birdwatching, the main subject of the nature columns he wrote for the Times for nearly 40 years.
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Angela Huth
Angela Huth is a journalist, novelist and playwright. She is also a keen dancer who once managed to secure a spin round the dance-floor with Anton Du Beke from Strictly Come Dancing.
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Clare Boylan
Clare Boylan, who died in 2006, was an Irish journalist, author and cat-lover, who once took a two-chapter fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë and completed it under the title Emma Brown.
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A.J. Ayer
Alfred Ayer – known professionally as A.J. Ayer and privately as ‘Freddie’ – died in 1989 and was a philosopher who once had a run-in with the heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson at a party.
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Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux is an American-born novelist and renowned travel writer, who believes: ‘You cannot be a grumpy traveller. You will not get anywhere. You’ll be killed, you’ll be insulted.’
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Hilary Spurling
Hilary Spurling is a biographer who works according to the mantra that: ‘Anyone attempting a portrait should above all approach the subject without preconceptions’.
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Michael Ratcliffe
Michael Ratcliffe’s first forays into the world of work were as a supply teacher in late 1950s’ Manchester. He would go on to become literary editor and theatre critic of the Observer.