First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Libby |
Benedict |
Libby Benedict (17 June 1903-15 January 1990) was a Jewish-American writer active during the pre- and post-World War II period. Dates of her birth and death seem to be accepted, but there are other confusions about parentage and name. |
Female | Journalist, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Translator | 1903 Jun 17th | 1990 Jan 15th |
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Mulk Raj |
Anand |
Mulk Raj Anand (12 Dec. 1905- 28 Sept. 2004) was a prolific novelist, critic, cultural historian, and political activist whose career spanned several tumultuous eras in Indian history and crossed divides between cultures, castes, and continents. |
Male | 1905 Dec 12th | 2004 Sep 28th | |
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Sylva |
Norman |
Best known for work on Shelley. Married Edmund Blunden in 1933 (after her HP book published, 1929), divorced 1945 (no children). |
Female | Critic, Writer | 1906 | 1971 |
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Julian |
Bell |
Julian Bell (1908-1937) was the elder son of Vanessa and Clive Bell and the nephew of Virginia Woolf. As such he literally grew up at the very heart of Bloomsbury. |
Male | Poet | 1908 Feb 4th | 1937 Jul 18th |
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Anna |
D. Whyte |
Little is known about the personal life of the enigmatic author Anna D. Whyte. Believed to be born in 1909 in New Zealand, many of her early and later years remain a mystery. |
Female | Novelist | 1909 | |
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Richard |
Kennedy |
Richard Kennedy was sixteen when he started working at the Hogarth Press in 1928. He had come straight out of Marlborough College, having failed to pass the exams that would have allowed him to stay. |
Male | Book Illustrator | 1910 Apr 9th | 1989 Feb 11th |
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Angelica |
Garnett |
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) was born on December 25th, 1918 in Charleston, Sussex and died on May 4th, 2012 in Aix-en-Provence. |
Female | Artist, Book Illustrator, Writer | 1918 Dec 25th | 2012 May 4th |
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Olive |
Moore |
Olive Moore is a mystery. She first appears on the literary record in the 1920s as a journalist, penning at least 37 articles forthe Daily Sketch, a British tabloid, from 1923 to 1934. |
Female | Journalist, Novelist | 21 February 1901 | 24 November 1979 |
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Beatrice |
Hasting |
Few people know of Beatrice Hastings today, although she was one of modernism’s most complicated and memorable figures. |
Female | Editor, Writer | 27 January 1879 | 30 October 1943 |
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Blanche |
Knopf |
Blanche Wolf Knopf was an American publisher who served as vice president and director of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. from 1918 to 1957 and was the firm’s president from 1957 until her death in 1966. |
Female | Publisher | 30 July 1894 | 4 June 1966 |
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Alix |
Strachey |
‘I caught Alix in profile & saw her old, masterly, advanced’, wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary (Diary 2:135-136) and she was right: Alix Strachey was to become masterly and advanced but her role as one of the first Br |
Female | Translator, Writer, Psychoanalyst | 4 June 1892 | 28 April 1973 |
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John Maynard |
Keynes |
John Maynard Keynes (‘Maynard’) was an economist, investor, administrator and policymaker, famous for his innovations in economic theory, and for his work at Britain’s finance ministry, H.M. Treasury, where he helped to fund two world wars and to negotiate two peaces. |
Male | Economist | 5 June 1883 | 21 April 1946 |
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Alice |
Meynell |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was born near London but spent much of her childhood in Italy, where the Thompson family could live more cheaply than in England.[1] Her parents provided Alice and her sister Eli |
Female | Editor, Poet, Writer | October 1847 | 27 November 1922 |