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Paul Ableman
Paul Ableman (1927-2006) was a novelist, playwright and screenwriter, born in Leeds and brought up in London and New York. He was the author of five novels, the most famous ... More
Harold Acton
Harold Acton (1904-1994) was a writer, scholar and aesthete who listed as his principal recreation 'hunting the philistines'. From the balcony of his Oxford rooms he famously declaimed passages from ... More
Christopher Adey
Christopher Adey began his distinguished conducting career in 1973 as Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has developed a busy international schedule, but he retains ... More
Robert Aickman
Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, ... More
Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss, born in 1925, is one of the most prolific authors of both general and science fiction. In a writing career stretching from 1955 to the present he has ... More
Tania Alexander
Tania Alexander (1915-2004) was an author, translator and theatrical adviser. She also worked in publishing, for Secker & Warburg in the late 1930s. Frederic Warburg wrote of her, ‘Tania ran ... More
Alphonse Allais
Mark Amory
Mark Amory has been the Literary Editor of The Spectator for the last twenty-five years, thus making him the longest serving Literary Editor in London. In addition to his Lord ... More
Noel Annan
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