John Betjeman (1906–1984)

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1. John Betjeman

   Author of Collected Poems, The Best of Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

2. Alan Bennett

   Author of Writing Home, Telling Tales, Single Spies

3. Philip Larkin

   Author of Collected Poems, High Windows, The North Ship

4. Wendy Cope

   Author of Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Serious Concerns

5. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of Put Out More Flags, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, 1932-66

6. A. E. Housman

   Author of A Shropshire Lad, The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman

7. Bevis Hillier

   Author of Young Betjeman, Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter, John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love

8. Malcolm Bradbury

   Author of The History Man, Eating People Is Wrong, Rates of Exchange

9. Nikolaus Pevsner

   Author of An Outline of European Architecture, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition, The Englishness of English Art

10. Graham Greene

    Author of Monsignor Quixote, England Made Me, In Search of a Character: Two African Journals

11. Siegfried Sassoon

    Author of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, The Memoirs of George Sherston

12. Laurie Lee

    Author of Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Rose for Winter

13. Michael Innes

    Author of Death at the President's Lodging, There Came Both Mist and Snow, Old Hall, New Hall

14. Geoffrey Willans

    Author of The Compleet Molesworth, How to be Topp: A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All There is to Kno about Space, Whizz for Atomms

15. E. F. Benson

    Author of Lucia in London, The Freaks of Mayfair, As We Were : A Victorian Peep-Show

16. Ted Hughes

    Author of Crow, Ted Hughes: Poems Selected by Simon Armitage

17. Helen Gardner

    Author of The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin Classics), The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse)

18. Angus Wilson

    Author of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Hemlock and After

19. Flora Thompson

    Author of Lark Rise to Candleford

20. J. L. Carr

    Author of The Harpole Report, Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers, A Day in Summer