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Also Known As Sir Peter Levin Shaffer
Born May 15, 1926 • Liverpool • England
Died Ireland
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1985)
Notable Works “Amadeus” • “Equus” • “Five-Finger Exercise”
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Tom Stoppard
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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
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Simon Gray
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Compton Mackenzie
Scottish writer
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Harold Pinter
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Zadie Smith
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Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
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