Dennis Potter (1935–1994)

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1. Dennis Potter

   Author of The Singing Detective, Ticket to Ride, Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture

2. Jonathan Lethem

   Author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye

3. Anthony Burgess

   Author of Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction), The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library), Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice

4. Julian Barnes

   Author of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Metroland, Before She Met Me

5. Peter Ackroyd

   Author of Hawksmoor, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, First Light

6. Martin Amis

   Author of London Fields, Dead Babies, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

7. Alan Bennett

   Author of Writing Home, The Laying On of Hands: Stories, The Madness of George III

8. Bruce Chatwin

   Author of On the Black Hill, Utz, The Viceroy of Ouidah

9. Philip K. Dick

   Author of Now Wait for Last Year, Eye in the Sky, The Simulacra

10. Tom Stoppard

    Author of Travesties, Jumpers, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land: Two Plays

11. David Lodge

    Author of Therapy, Paradise News, How Far Can You Go?

12. George Bernard Shaw

    Author of Heartbreak House, Androcles and the Lion, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza

13. Angela Carter

    Author of Nights at the Circus, Saints and Strangers, Fireworks

14. William Boyd

    Author of An Ice-Cream War, The New Confessions, Stars and Bars

15. Michael Chabon

    Author of McSweeney's Issue 10: Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Maps and Legends

16. Malcolm Bradbury

    Author of The History Man, Rates of Exchange, My Strange Quest for Mensonge (King Penguin)

17. George Saunders

    Author of Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation

18. Jorge Luis Borges

    Author of The Book of Imaginary Beings, Selected Non-Fictions

19. Peter Carey

    Author of Jack Maggs, The Tax Inspector

20. Graham Swift

    Author of The Light of Day, Out of This World