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1. Ian Jack

   Author of Granta 71: Shrinks (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing), Granta 73: Necessary Journeys (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing), Granta 72: Overreachers (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

2. Bill Buford

   Author of Granta 24: Inside Intelligence, Granta 23: Home, Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat

3. Virginia Woolf

   Author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own

4. Iris Murdoch

   Author of A Severed Head, The Green Knight, The Book and the Brotherhood

5. Henry James

   Author of The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Bostonians

6. Saul Bellow

   Author of The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, More Die of Heartbreak

7. A. S. Byatt

   Author of Possession, Angels and Insects, Babel Tower

8. D. H. Lawrence

   Author of Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Plumed Serpent

9. Margaret Drabble

   Author of The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory

10. Ursula K. Le Guin

    Author of The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest, The Compass Rose

11. V. S. Naipaul

    Author of A House for Mr. Biswas, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, An Area of Darkness

12. Margaret Atwood

    Author of Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, Life Before Man

13. John Fowles

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

14. Graham Greene

    Author of Brighton Rock, The Honorary Consul, Monsignor Quixote

15. Elizabeth Bowen

    Author of The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris

16. Pat Barker

    Author of Regeneration, The Ghost Road, Another World

17. Ian McEwan

    Author of Enduring Love, The Cement Garden, Black Dogs

18. Samuel R. Delany

    Author of Dhalgren, Nova, Triton

19. Lawrence Durrell

    Author of Justine, Balthazar, Clea

20. Muriel Spark

    Author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington