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Encyclopedia > James Tait Black Prize

Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. They were founded by Mrs. Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, who was a partner in the publishing house of A. & C. Black Ltd. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...


The original endowment is now supplemented by the Scottish Arts Council, and the winner is chosen by the Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Scottish Arts Council logo The Scottish Arts Council is the leading national organization for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...


Two prizes are awarded annually, one for fiction and the other for biography; the amount for each prize is £3,000. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... This is an article on biographies. ...

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Eligibility

Only those works of fiction and biographies that were written in English, originated with a British publisher, and first published in Britain in the 12 month period prior to the submission date (30 September) are eligible for the award.


List of Winners

Fiction Awards

Sir Hugh Walpole, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Hugh Seymour Walpole (March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941), was an English novelist. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose output spans novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... Walter John de la Mare, OM (April 25, 1873 - June 22, 1956), was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered (though not necessarily justly so) for his works for children. ... This page is not about David S. Garnett, the science fiction writer David Garnett (1892 – 1981) was a British writer and publisher, and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. ... Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ... E. M. Forster E.M. Forster should not be confused with C. S. Forester, author of the Horatio Hornblower novels. ... Liam OFlaherty (August 28, 1896 - September 7, 1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. ... Radclyffe Hall Radclyffe Hall (August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1943) (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, in life she went by the name John) was a British lesbian, and author of The Well of Loneliness. ... Francis Brett Young (June 29, 1884 - March 28, 1954) was a British novelist and poet. ... Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. ... J. B. Priestley John Boynton Priestley, OM (September 13, 1894, Bradford, England - August 14, 1984, Stratford-upon-Avon) was an English writer and broadcaster. ... E. H. Young Emily Hilda Young (March 21, 1880 - August 8, 1949) was an English novelist. ... Irish stamp on the occasion of Kate OBriens birth centenary Kate OBrien (December 3, 1897 - August 13, 1974), was an Irish novelist and playwright. ... There are a number of notable women named Helen Simpson Helen de Guerry Simpson, an Australian novelist Helen Simpson, a British short story writer This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... A. G. Macdonnell was a Scottish novelist and author, whose most famous work is the gently satirical novel England, Their England (1933). ... England, Their England (1933) is an affectionately satirical comic novel by the Scottish writer A. G. Macdonnell. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24, 1895–December 7, 1985) was an English scholar, best remembered for his work as a poet and novelist. ... Leo Myers, an early portrait by his mother Eveleen Myers, c. ... Image:Holtby. ... Neil Miller Gunn (November 8, 1891 - January 15, 1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. ... The cover of the 1974 paperback edition of one of Foresters non-fiction titles: Hunting The Bismarck Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. ... Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 - 1958) was an English dramatic critic and novelist. ... Time magazine cover featuring Joyce Cary, October 20, 1952 This article is about the male author Joyce Cary. ... Arthur David Waley (August 19, 1889 – June 27, 1966) was a noted English Orientalist and Sinologist. ... Wu Chengen (Traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; Simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú ChéngÄ“n) (1500? or 1506?-1582) , was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. ... Mary Josephine Lavin (June 10, 1912 - March 25, 1996) was a noted Irish short story writer and novelist. ... Forrest Reid (1875-1947). ... Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896-1958) was an English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, and poet. ... Oliver Onions (pseudonym of George Oliver) (1873 - 1961) was a significant English novelist. ... Leslie Poles Hartley (December 30, 1895 - December 13, 1972) was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. ... Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer and critic whose works explore the ambiguities of modern man and ambivalent moral or political issues in a contemporary setting. ... Emma Smith Emma Smith (1923 - ) is an English novelist who briefly rose to literary fame in the 1940s before fading away into obscurity. ... Chapman Mortimer was the pen name of William Charles (W. C.) Chapman Mortimer, an English novelist. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Evelyn Arthur St. ... C. P. Snow, born Charles Percy Snow, (1905-1980) was a scientist and novelist. ... Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett D.B.E. (1884 – August 27, 1969) was an English novelist. ... Dame Rose Macaulay (August 1, 1881 - October 30, 1958), affectionately known as Emilie, was an English novelist. ... Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) is a writer most remembered for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. ... Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson (August 11, 1913-1991) was a British novelist and short story writer. ... Morris Langlo West (April 26, 1916 - October 9, 1999) was an Australian writer. ... Rex Warner (March 9, 1905 - June 24, 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. ... Dame Muriel Spark (born February 1, 1918) is a leading British novelist. ... Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (born January 16, 1923) is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels. ... Aidan Higgins (born March 3, 1927) is an Irish writer. ... Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939) is an English novelist. ... Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. ... Nadine Gordimer (b. ... John Berger (b. ... Dame Iris Murdoch Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Anglo–Irish writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. ... There have been several notable people called Brian Moore. ... John Banville is an Irish novelist, born December 8, 1945 in Wexford. ... John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England). ... Maurice Gee, born August 22, 1931 in Whakatane, New Zealand, is one of New Zealands most distinguished novelists. ... Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was an English novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of... John Maxwell Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced kut-SEE-uh) (born 9 February 1940) is a South African author. ... Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie Arabic: أحمد سلمان رشدی on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain to Japan. ... Bruce Charles Chatwin (May 13, 1940 - January 18, 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer. ... James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. ... Angela Carter (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works. ... Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is one of the UKs foremost living poets. ... George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996), was a poet, author and dramatist. ... Piers Paul Read is a novelist and non-fiction author. ... James Kelman (born in Glasgow in 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... William Boyd is the name of four notable people: William Boyd (writer) William Boyd (actor), better known as Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd (bassist) William C. Boyd, the US immunologist See also: Billy Boyd This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... For the Australian politician, see Ian Sinclair Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. ... Rose Tremain is an author and academic. ... Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. ... Alan Hollinghurst is a gay British novelist. ... The name Christopher Priest can refer to: Christopher Priest, British writer of science fiction Christopher Priest, American writer of comic books also known as Jim Owsley Categories: Disambiguation ... Graham Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. ... Alice Thompson (born in Edinburgh) is a Scottish novelist. ... Famous people named Andrew Miller include: Andrew Miller (politician) Andrew Miller (novelist) Andrew Miller (rugby player) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Dame Beryl Bainbridge (born November 21, 1934), is an English novelist. ... Timothy Peter Mo (born December 30, 1950¹, Hong Kong) is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. ... Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. ... This article is about the novelist and journalist. ... Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is a USA novelist and essayist. ... Andrew OHagan Andrew OHagan (1968 - ) is a Scottish writer and novelist. ... David Peace is a British author born in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1967. ...

Biography Awards

Samuel Butler Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902) was a British writer best known for his satire Erewhon. ... George Macaulay Trevelyan (February 16, 1876 – July 21, 1962), was an English historian, son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan and great-nephew of Thomas Macaulay. ... The title Earl Grey was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1806 for General Sir Charles Grey. ... Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877 until her death. ... Ronald Ross Ronald Ross (May 13, 1857–September 16, 1932) was an English physician. ... Geoffrey Scott (1883 – 1929) was an English scholar and poet, known as a historian of architecture. ... Wycliffe may also refer to Wycliffe Bible Translators John Wyclif (also Wycliffe or Wycliff) (c. ... The Right Honourable Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher , OM (21 March 1865–18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. ... Photograph of James Bryce James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838-1922), was a British jurist, historian and politician, He was the son of James Bryce (LL.D. of Glasgow, who had a school in Belfast for many years), and was born at Belfast on May 10 1838. ... John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada. ... Montrose is the name of several places in the world. ... Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil (April 9, 1902 – January 1, 1986), was an English aristocrat, literary scholar, biographer and academic. ... David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776*) was a philosopher and historian from Scotland. ... Stephen Lucius Gwynn (13 February 1864–1950) was an Irish journalist, biographer, poet and Nationalist politician. ... Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 - June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. ... Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. ... Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527). ... Thomas de Quincey from the frontispiece of Revolt of the Tartars, Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual. ... John Knox (1505, 1513 or 1514 – 1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the Church in Scotland in a Presbyterian manner. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. ... Hilda Francis Margaret Prescott (1896-1972) H F M Prescott FRSL, author, academic and historian, was born Feb 22, 1896, the daughter of Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and Margaret Prescott (nee Warburton). ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ... Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) was a British historian. ... William I (William the Silent) William I of Orange-Nassau (April 24, 1533 – July 10, 1584), also widely known as William the Silent, was born in the House of Nassau, and became Prince of Orange in 1544. ... Richard Aldington (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. ... Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital city of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital city in Oceania. ... William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 - July 11, 1903) was a British poet, critic and editor. ... Cecil Woodham-Smith Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (née Fitzgerald) (April 29, 1896 - March 16, 1977) was an acclaimed British historian and biographer. ... Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was the pioneer of modern nursing. ... Sir Leslie Stephen (November 28, 1832 – February 22, 1904) was an English author and critic, the father of two famous daughters, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. ... The Right Honourable Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867–14 December 1947) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three separate occasions. ... Sir John Moore (November 13, 1761 - January 16, 1809) was a British soldier and General. ... Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1786. ... Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University. ... St. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... John Locke (August 29, 1632–October 28, 1704) was a 17th-century English philosopher. ... Fanny Burney later Madame DArblay (June 13, 1752-January 6, 1840) was an English novelist and diarist. ... Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 — 26 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the composer Ivor Novello. ... Edward Marsh (1872-1953) was an English polymath, the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many individuals, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. ... William Ralph Inge (June 6, 1860 - February 26, 1954) was an English author, Anglican prelate and professor of divinity at Cambridge. ... John Keble John Keble (April 25, 1792- March 29, 1866) was an English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford (1870). ... Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, better known as Elizabeth Longford (August 30, 1906 - October 23, 2002) was a British author, born Elizabeth Harman. ... Mary Ann Moorman (born 1932) was a witness to the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. ... William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (March 25, 1887 in Cambridge - July 5, 1982, in Cambridge) was an English surgeon, physician, scholar and bibliophile. ... William Harvey (1578–1657) was a medical doctor who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. ... Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond, 1850 Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. ... George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. ... Lady Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham, (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart) (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was Queen of Scots, monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland, from December 14, 1542 – July 24, 1567; and Queen Consort of France from July 10, 1559 – December 5, 1560. ... Jasper Godwin Ridley (1920 – 2004) was a British writer, known for historical biographies. ... Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (October 20, 1784 - October 18, 1865) was a British Prime Minister and Liberal politician. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 - August 19, 1960) was a significant British historian. ... Quentin Bell (1910 – December 16, 1996) was an English art historian. ... Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist, who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English academic and historian, currently a Fellow of and ancient history tutor at New College, Oxford. ... Alexander the Great fighting Persian king Darius (not in frame) (Pompeii mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ... John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement. ... Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ... Karl Miller (born 1931) is a British literary editor, critic and writer. ... Anton Chekhov, Russian writer Pavel Chekov, character in Star Trek Chekhov, town in Moscow Oblast, Russia Chekhov, town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia Chekhovo, health resort in Bashkiria, Russia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Fran ois-Ren , vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 - July 4, 1848) was a French writer and diplomat considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. ... Hardy is the name of some places in the United States of America: Hardy, Arkansas Hardy, Kentucky Hardy, Virginia Hardy is also the name of the following people: French singer and actress Françoise Hardy (born 1944) Australian novelist and journalist Frank Hardy Comedian Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) Mathematician G... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of England. ... Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892) was one of the most popular English poets of his time. ... Edith Sitwell (September 7, 1887 – December 9, 1964) was a British poet and critic. ... Richard Ellmann (March 15, 1918 - 1987) was a prominent literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Alan Walker (born 1930) is an English writer on music who presently teaches at McMaster University, where he chaired the Department of Music from 1971 until 1980. ... Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. ... Lyndall Gordon is a South African academic, known for her literary biographies. ... Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist, who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. ... Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893–February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. ... Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), pictured here in 1930, made influential contributions to Logic and the philosophy of language, critically examining the task of conventional philosophy and its relation to the nature of language. ... Ian Gibsons are many. ... Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 - August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. ... Claire Tomalin (born June 20, 1933) is an English biographer and journalist. ... Ellen Ternan. ... Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... James Moore is the name of more than one person of note. ... In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as an influential scientist examining controversial topics. ... An anonymous portrait, often believed to show Christopher Marlowe Christopher (Kit) Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. ... This article is about the literary figure. ... Doris Lessing, CH, OBE (born October 22, 1919), is a British writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia (Iran). ... Gitta Sereny is a Hungarian-born British biographer, historian and journalist. ... Albert Speer â–¶ (help· info) (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer in Mannheim, Germany, the second of three sons. ... Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford (at St Cross College, Oxford. ... Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. Born in 1489 at Nottingham, Cranmer was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and became a priest following the death of his first wife. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... Peter Ackroyd (born October 5, 1949 in London) is a British author. ... Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527). ... George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. ... Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, more properly Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton, is a British economist, author of a major biography in three volumes of John Maynard Keynes, and a life peer. ... John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (pronounced kānz / kAnze), ) (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was an English economist, whose ideas had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on American and British fiscal policies. ... Professor Janet Browne is known principally as the author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and The Power of Place. ... In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as an influential scientist examining controversial topics. ... Jonathan Bate (born June 26, 1958) is a British Shakespeare scholar and literary biographer. ... John Clare (July 13, 1793 - May 20, 1864), English poet, commonly known as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, the son of a farm labourer, was born at Helpston near Peterborough. ...

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