Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999)

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1. Dirk Bogarde

   Author of A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Snakes and Ladders, An Orderly Man

2. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Question of Upbringing, The Acceptance World, What's Become of Waring

3. John Clifford Mortimer

   Author of Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Clinging to the Wreckage, Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

4. H. E. Bates

   Author of Fair Stood the Wind for France, The Jacaranda Tree, The Four Beauties

5. Mary Wesley

   Author of The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, An Imaginative Experience

6. Eric Newby

   Author of Love and War in the Apennines, Slowly Down the Ganges (Picador Books), On the Shores of the Mediterranean

7. Clive James

   Author of Unreliable Memoirs: Autobiography (Picador Books), Falling Towards England (Picador Books), May Week Was in June

8. Graham Greene

   Author of England Made Me, A Sort of Life, Ways of Escape

9. William Boyd

   Author of Brazzaville Beach, An Ice-Cream War, The Destiny of Nathalie "X"

10. Alan Bennett

    Author of Writing Home, The Laying On of Hands: Stories, Telling Tales

11. Sheridan Morley

    Author of A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noel Coward, Dirk Bogarde: Rank Outsider

12. Tania Blixen

    Author of The Dreaming Child (Penguin 60s), From the Ngong Hills (Penguin 60s S)

13. Laurie Lee

    Author of Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, To War in Spain (Penguin 60s)

14. Kingsley Amis

    Author of The Green Man, Difficulties with Girls, The Riverside Villas Murder

15. Elizabeth David

    Author of A Book of Mediterranean Food, Summer Cooking, I'll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon (Penguin 60s)

16. John Coldstream

    Author of Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography, Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters

17. Paul Theroux

    Author of The London Embassy, Down the Yangtze, Slow Trains to Simla (Penguin 60s)

18. Jan Morris

    Author of From the Four Corners, Scenes from Havian Life (Penguin 60s)

19. Christopher Isherwood

    Author of Goodbye to Berlin, Prater Violet, All the Conspirators

20. Kahlil Gibran

    Author of Prophet, Madman, Wanderer (Penguin 60s)