Robertson Davies (1913–1995)

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1. Robertson Davies

   Author of Fifth Business, The Rebel Angels, The Manticore

2. Anthony Trollope

   Author of Barchester Towers, Can You Forgive Her?, Doctor Thorne

3. Margaret Laurence

   Author of The Stone Angel, The Diviners, The Fire-Dwellers

4. Timothy Findley

   Author of Pilgrim, Not Wanted on the Voyage, The Piano Man's Daughter

5. John Fowles

   Author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A Maggot

6. Mordecai Richler

   Author of Barney's Version, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Son of a Smaller Hero

7. A.S. Byatt

   Author of Possession, Angels and Insects, Babel Tower
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8. Margaret Atwood

   Author of Wilderness Tips, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm

9. Graham Greene

   Author of The Honorary Consul, A Burnt-Out Case, Monsignor Quixote

10. Michael Ondaatje

    Author of The English Patient, Anil’s Ghost, In the Skin of a Lion

11. Lawrence Durrell

    Author of Justine, The Alexandria Quartet, Balthazar

12. David Lodge

    Author of Small World, Changing Places, Nice Work

13. Carol Shields

    Author of The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love

14. Henry James

    Author of The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, The Golden Bowl

15. Evelyn Waugh

    Author of A Handful of Dust, The Loved One, Scoop

16. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of Hawksmoor, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, Blake

17. Charles Dickens

    Author of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Barnaby Rudge

18. Barry Unsworth

    Author of Sacred Hunger, Morality Play

19. Graham Swift

    Author of Last Orders, Waterland

20. Iris Murdoch

    Author of The Sea, the Sea, A Severed Head, Nuns and Soldiers