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The Guardian G2 pp. 10-11 Thursday October 6, 2005
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/johnlecarre

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/nov/01/profile-john-le-carre

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/16/le-carre-spy-spooks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/30/john-le-carre-booker-honour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/23/john-le-carre-archive-bodleian

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1586009,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1326066,00.html

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,809419,00.html

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,809445,00.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4817316

http://www.johnlecarre.com/

Patrick McGrath

The Guardian Weekend p. 3 Saturday September 3, 2005
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1561716,00.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1553073,00.html

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Martin Amis

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i-despise-islamism-ian-mcewan-faces-backlash-over-press-interview-852030.html

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Will Self

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Kiran Desai

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Peter Morgan

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Jonathan Franzen

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Bill Bryson

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Mark Haddon

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Alan Bennett

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/18/alan-bennett-the-habit-of-art

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Kathy O'Beirne

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Diana Wynne Jones

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Tom Wolfe

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Stephen King

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Doris Lessing

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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/2007/10/audio_xan_brooks_interviews_do.html

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George MacDonald Fraser

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Bret Easton Ellis

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/jul/26/bret-easton-ellis-guardian-book-club

James Ellroy

The Guardian G2 p. 16 16.3.2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/jamesellroy

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/james-ellroy-david-peace-conversation

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Armistead Maupin

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Nadine Gordimer

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Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/edward-kennedy-usa

Seamus Heaney

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/competition/2010/feb/09/win-seamus-heaney-tickets

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html

Don DeLillo

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Cormac McCarthy

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Salman Rushdie

The Guardian G2 p. 7

29.8.2005
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Time Covers -The 80S

TIME cover 02-27-1989 ill. of Ayatullah Khomeini;

re Salman Rushdie's SATANIC VERSES;

inset Oliver North trial.

Date taken: February 27, 1989

Photographer: Mel Odom

Life Images
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Salman Rushdie

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Ben Okri

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Tom Stoppard

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Irvine Welsh

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Toni Morrison

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Edward Bond

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Ray Bradbury

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Wole Soyinka

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Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul

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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,2273159,00.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,544848,00.htm

John Irving

Grappling with life

John Irving

Raised in New Hampshire, his early passions were writing and wrestling.
One of the few successful practitioners of the big, multi-layered novel – Dickens is his inspiration –
he has scrutinised America's 'vast issues' through the prism of his own complex history.
Recent revelations about his long-estranged father have added poignancy to his latest work.
Interview by Nicholas Wroe

The Guardian > Review pp. 12-13 13.8.2005
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John Osborne

Playing at happy families . . .

John Osborne with his daughter Nolan, before he threw her out

Photographie très légèrement recadrée à gauche.

Look back with loathing
John Osborne was one of Britain's most celebrated playwrights,
seen as the original Angry Young Man.
His biographer John Heilpern
describes Osborne's cruel treatment of his daughter, Nolan,
who talks for the first time about the father who threw her out
when she was 17 and never spoke to her again

Saturday April 22, 2006 Review p. 5 The Guardian

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1743722,00.html

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Nelle Harper Lee

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Phyllis Dorothy James / PD James

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/04/pd-james-life-in-writing

Maurice Sendak 1928-2012

Maurice Sendak (...) was both one of the most individual

and one of the most successful illustrators of the 20th century.

Since 1951 his 90-odd titles have sold nearly 30m copies in the US alone.

His renowned work Where the Wild Things Are (1963),

with worldwide sales of more than 19m,

was a turning point not only in his own career

but in the history of children's books.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-wild-things-dies-83

William Francis Granger 1941-2012

newspaperman turned novelist

whose fiction alternated between

international spy thrillers and police procedurals

set on the gritty streets of Chicago

— and occasionally blended both —
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/bill-granger-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-70.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/bill-granger-novelist-and-reporter-dies-at-70.html

David Anthony Bowman 1957-2012

novelist and cultural critic whose first two books,

“Let the Dog Drive” and “Bunny Modern,”

received wide praise in the 1990s for their satirical voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/books/david-bowman-author-of-let-the-dog-drive-dies-at-54.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/books/david-bowman-author-of-let-the-dog-drive-dies-at-54.html

Doris June Waugh / Doris Betts 1932-2012

award-winning novelist and short-story writer

whose characters grappled with

religious faith, freedom, captivity and original sin

in tales steeped in the Southern literary tradition
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/books/doris-betts-novelist-in-southern-tradition-dies-at-79.html?hpw

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/books/doris-betts-novelist-in-southern-tradition-dies-at-79.html

Lewis Alonzo Nordan 1939-2012

Mississippi-born writer

whose fiction conjures a dreamlike world

that straddles the whisker-thin margin between a legend and a lie,

but whose best-known novel was based

on a historical murder of national import
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/lewis-nordan-writer-who-spun-lyrical-tales-dies-at-72.html?hpw

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/lewis-nordan-writer-who-spun-lyrical-tales-dies-at-72.html

Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. 1919-2012

former poet laureate of the United States

whose work’s calm, unruffled surface belied deep subversion below
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/books/reed-whittemore-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-92.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/books/reed-whittemore-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-92.html

Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose 1923-2012

English experimental writer

known for wielding words with the ardor of a philologist,

the fingers of a prestidigitator and the appetite of a lexivore,

resulting in novels that exhilarated many critics and enervated others
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/books/christine-brooke-rose-experimental-writer-dies-at-89.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/books/christine-brooke-rose-experimental-writer-dies-at-89.html

John Arden 1930-2012

major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s,

whose politically engaged, theatrically inventive

and conscience-provoking works

were often compared to Brecht’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/theater/john-arden-british-playwright-dies-at-81.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/theater/john-arden-british-playwright-dies-at-81.html

Benedict Freedman 1919-2012

Benedict Freedman's first novel, “Mrs. Mike”

— based on the true story of a young woman’s life

in the Canadian wilderness at the turn of the century —

was a sensation after it was published in 1947

and inspired a Hollywood feature film
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/books/benedict-freedman-dies-at-92-co-author-of-mrs-mike.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/books/benedict-freedman-dies-at-92-co-author-of-mrs-mike.html

William Elbert Gay 1941-2012

self-taught novelist from rural Tennessee

who emerged from obscurity in his late 50s

with critically praised books in the Southern Gothic style
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/william-gay-novelist-rooted-in-tennessee-dies-at-70.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/william-gay-novelist-rooted-in-tennessee-dies-at-70.html

Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011

slashing polemicist

in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell

who trained his sights on targets as various as

Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa,

wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief,

and dismayed his former comrades on the left

by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/christopher-hitchens

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/christopher_hitchens/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/20/christopher-hitchens-memorial-new-york

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/christopher-hitchens-consummate-writer-brilliant-friend.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/in-his-own-words.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-tributes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-quotes-bons-mots

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/may/30/christopher-hitchens

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-dies-aged-62

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/books/christopher-hitchens-on-writing-mortality-and-cancer.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/arguably-essays-by-christopher-hitchens-book-review.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/24/amis-hitchens-world

Russell Conwell Hoban 1925-2011

For many years it seemed there was more than one Russell Hoban.

Now that he has died, aged 86,

after 60 years of intense activity in his successive careers,

it may begin to be possible to gain some sense of the whole man.

Certainly, it is clear enough that the young author of dozens of children's stories,

whose masterpiece was probably The Mouse and His Child (1967),

explored the same territory as the later author who published nearly 20 adult novels,

and whose masterpiece was probably Riddley Walker (1980).

Each is a tale of glorious escape from physical and psychic bondage.

Each ends with a sense that freedom is itself deeply bounded.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/14/russell-hoban

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/russell-hoban

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/14/russell-hoban

Mildred Spitz Savage 1919-2011

the author of “Parrish,”

a tale of a teenager struggling into manhood

in the vast tobacco fields of the Connecticut River Valley

in the late 1940s and early ’50s

— a story later adapted for a popular movie of the same title —
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/franklin-kameny-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/franklin-kameny-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86.html

Christopher Logue 1926-2011

Christopher Logue was dubbed the "Alexander Pope of his day"

by AN Wilson and was regarded one of the country's leading poets.

Although a master of the short and pithy political poem,

his major work was the retelling of Homer's epic, the Iliad.

Logue's version was published in a number of small books including War Music

which won the international Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002,

and Cold Calls which won the 2006 Whitbread Poetry Award.

Logue spent over 45 years on the project

while writing plays for the screen and the theatre, translating Brecht,

and editing Pseuds' Corner in the satirical magazine Private Eye.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/03/poet-christopher-logue-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/christopher-logue

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/03/christopher-logue

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/03/poet-christopher-logue-dies

Shelagh Delaney 1939-2011

Shelagh Delaney was 18 when she wrote A Taste of Honey,

one of the defining plays of the 1950s working-class and feminist cultural movements.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/nov/21/shelagh-delaney

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/arts/shelagh-delaney-playwright-dies-at-72.html

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer 1940-2011

novelist with a gift for evoking complex characters

in the grip of extreme psychological stress and physical suffering,

notably in “The Madness of a Seduced Woman”

and the Vietnam War novel “Buffalo Afternoon”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/books/susan-fromberg-schaeffer-novelist-dies-at-71.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/books/susan-fromberg-schaeffer-novelist-dies-at-71.html

Samuel Menashe Weisberg 1925-2011

Greenwich Village poet whose jewel-like, gnomic short verse

won him an ardent following in Britain

and belated recognition in the United States

when the Poetry Foundation

gave him its first Neglected Masters Award in 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html

Alan Doric Wilson 1939-2011

playwright whose satirical, wisecracking works

are considered bricks in the foundations

of the Off Off Broadway and gay theater movements
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html

Henry Coffin Carlisle 1926-2011

His broad literary career included supporting oppressed writers, editing Camus,

helping translate and publish Solzhenitsyn,

and writing a novel that mused about cannibalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/books/henry-carlisle-supporter-of-oppressed-writers-dies-at-84.html

Richard Samuel Wimmer 1936-2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/arts/dick-wimmer-74-irish-wine-author-is-dead.html

Paul Violi 1944-2011

poet with an easy, conversational style and satiric bent

who reworked arcane historical verse forms and invented his own in poems

that mimicked glossaries, errata slips, travel brochures and cover letters
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating 1926- 2011

The crime writer Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating

was more than happy to be known simply as Harry,

although publishers always billed him as HRF Keating.

Over half a century, he published roughly 50 novels.

More than two dozen of these featured his best-known hero,

the unassuming Indian policeman Inspector Ganesh Ghote,

who also appeared in short stories,

and television and film adaptations of Keating's books.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/28/hrf-keating-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/28/hrf-keating-obituary

Lanford Eugene Wilson 1937-2011

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose work

— earthy, realist, greatly admired, widely performed —

centered on the sheer ordinariness of marginality

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/lanford-wilson-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dies-at-73.html

Irving Ned Landesman 1919-2011

writer and editor

whose journal Neurotica analyzed the anxieties of postwar America

and whose Broadway musical, “The Nervous Set,”

has been called the first (and only) Beat musical
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/27landesman.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/27landesman.html

Brian Jacques 1939-2011

“Redwall” was published in 1986.

It became the first installment

in what is now a best-selling 21-volume children’s fantasy series.

Set at the pastoral Redwall Abbey in the misty English past,

the books are written for children 8 and up.

They center on the triumph of good over evil

— specifically the hard-won victories

of the abbey’s resident mice, badgers and squirrels

over the marauding rats, weasels and stoats

that perennially threaten their peaceable kingdom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09jacques.html

Edward Reynolds Price 1933-2011

his novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina

struggling to find their place in the world established him

as one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/books/21price.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/21pricebox.html

Romulus Zachariah Linney IV 1930-2011

playwright who roved along many intellectual paths,

exploring the southern Appalachian culture of his upbringing,

refashioning classical works for modern times

and adapting contemporary novels for the stage
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/arts/16linney.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/arts/16linney.html

Joseph Nicholas Gores 1931-2011

crime writer whose spare, chiseled sentences and deadpan dialogue

put him squarely in the Dashiell Hammett tradition

and persuaded Hammett’s daughter

to let him write a follow-up to “The Maltese Falcon”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/14gores.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/14gores.html

Dick King-Smith 1922-2011

He published more than 100 books

— mostly about animals and often about pigs, his favorites —

which have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

The movie “Babe,”

based on his story about a pig that behaves like a sheepdog,

made his books a global hit.

“The Sheep-Pig” was retitled

“Babe: The Gallant Pig” for the American market.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/books/08smith.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/books/08smith.html

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