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1. Sir Ernest Gowers

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2. Joseph Gies

   Author of Life in a Medieval City

3. Edward de Bono

   Author of Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library)

4. Peter Mark Roget

   Author of Roget's International Thesaurus

5. Thomas Hardy

   Author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native

6. H. W. Fowler

   Author of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

7. Virginia Woolf

   Author of Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own

8. Mary Wollstonecraft

   Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

9. Margaret Atwood

   Author of The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

10. Rudyard Kipling

    Author of Kim

11. E. M. Forster

    Author of A Room with a View

12. Terry Pratchett

    Author of The Colour of Magic, Mort

13. David Allen

    Author of Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

14. William Shakespeare

    Author of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, King Lear

15. George Eliot

    Author of Middlemarch

16. Lynne Truss

    Author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves

17. Daniel Defoe

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18. Charles Dickens

    Author of A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield

19. Jared Diamond

    Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

20. John Steinbeck

    Author of Of Mice and Men