Colin MacInnes (1914–1976)

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1. Colin MacInnes

   Author of Absolute Beginners, City of Spades, All Day Saturday

2. Christopher Isherwood

   Author of Goodbye to Berlin, Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher and His Kind

3. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Question of Upbringing, The Acceptance World, The Fisher King

4. Edna O'Brien

   Author of The Country Girls, Girl with Green Eyes, August Is a Wicked Month

5. Wyndham Lewis

   Author of Tarr, The Apes of God, The Revenge for Love

6. Kingsley Amis

   Author of The Old Devils, The Green Man, The Anti-Death League

7. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of Scoop, Officers and Gentlemen, A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

8. Angus Wilson

   Author of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, No Laughing Matter, Such Darling Dodos

9. Patrick Hamilton

   Author of Hangover Square, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy, Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse

10. B. S. Johnson

    Author of House Mother Normal, Albert Angelo

11. Ed McBain

    Author of The Con Man, Killer's Choice, King's Ransom

12. Tony Gould

    Author of Inside Outsider: Life and Times of Colin MacInnes

13. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of Hawksmoor, English Music

14. Keith Waterhouse

    Author of Billy Liar

15. Alan Sillitoe

    Author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

16. E. Œ. Somerville

    Author of The Real Charlotte, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

17. David Peace

    Author of Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty Three

18. Muriel Spark

    Author of The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye

19. Iris Murdoch

    Author of Under the Net, Henry and Cato

20. Alasdair Gray

    Author of Lanark, Unlikely Stories, Mostly